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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 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

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Eric’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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 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 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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Eric sits

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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

Dedicate a star to Eric Kandel

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 →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

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. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.

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. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.

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. 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

Eric’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Eric Kandel, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 15° to 27° Capricorn depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

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. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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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

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.

  • 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

    Eric’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenussquarePluto2.4° to 3.7° orb

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

  • stableSuntrinePluto4.5° to 5.5° orb

    Eric’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune5.7° to 5.8° orb

    Eric’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSunconjunctionMars7.4° to 7.7° orb

    Eric’s core identity and drive act as one.

  • 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

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

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

    Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Eric building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.

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

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

    Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Eric feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 5°46′ (moves 0.65° 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.

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

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

    Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Eric feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 18°58′ (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.

  • 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°

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. 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

A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Eric is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.

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, 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 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 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°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Eric Kandel, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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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

Every card is computed from November 7, 1929, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The World

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The Radiant Guardian

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Western zodiac

Scorpio

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Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

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♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

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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

No birth time is on public record for Eric Kandel, 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 Q155529, 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 aquarius3, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Eric Kandel at Wikipedia and IMDb.

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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Snake.
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 time was Eric Kandel 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 Kandel's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the November 7, 1929 birth date.
What is Eric Kandel's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 7, 1929 birth date.
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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