F. Sherwood Rowland
F. Sherwood Rowland (born June 28, 1927, Delaware, United States; died 2012), was an American chemist. Rowland's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry and Japan Prize.
F. Sherwood Rowland’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rabbit, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Rabbit, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with F. Sherwood Rowland
F. Sherwood Rowland’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Strategist
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
What F. Sherwood Rowland’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
6
Soul Urge · being needed
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on F (6) and closes on F (6). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 6: movement against care.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
F. Sherwood Rowland’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Pearl, Pearl, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌺 Poppy
Rose pink · Pearl · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1927, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets F. Sherwood Rowland apart
F. Sherwood Rowland took the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1973, at 46.
Ohio Wesleyan University and University of Chicago shaped the training.
Cause of death is recorded as Parkinson's disease.
Wikipedia's editors put F. Sherwood Rowland under People from Delaware, Ohio, Deaths from Parkinson's disease in California and American chemists.
Elon Musk (1971) and Muhammad Yunus (1940) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Ohio Wesleyan University and University of Chicago
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1995), Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry (1993) and Guggenheim Fellowship (1973)
- Cause of death
- Parkinson's disease
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 60
What the chart says
F. Sherwood Rowland, according to the stars
Core essence
F. Sherwood Rowland feels the room before entering it. The core of F. Sherwood Rowland is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for F. Sherwood Rowland, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How F. Sherwood Rowland wants to be loved
F. Sherwood Rowland wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore F. Sherwood Rowland openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How F. Sherwood Rowland creates
How F. Sherwood Rowland makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. F. Sherwood Rowland creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: F. Sherwood Rowland is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. F. Sherwood Rowland 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 ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means F. Sherwood Rowland fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from F. Sherwood Rowland's birth date. Working below.
Where F. Sherwood Rowland sits
Six lines
F. Sherwood Rowland’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 F. Sherwood Rowland
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Delaware 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 Delaware that night
Computed for 40.30°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alkaid stood nearest the zenith over Delaware at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.5° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 84 catalog stars were up in all.
From 40.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 0% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat -1° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Delaware, United States
- Lived in
- Corona del Mar
Wikidata records Corona del Mar as F. Sherwood Rowland's home, against Delaware as the birthplace.
The death is recorded at Newport Beach, Orange County in 2012.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for F. Sherwood Rowland: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual F.'s chart is
Chart pattern score
68 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Cancer · Grand trine · 1 unaspected planet
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunFeeds you before you ask.
F. Sherwood Rowland's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 28, 1927, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Fire Rabbit
Fire RabbitSoft voice, sharp read.
F. Sherwood Rowland was born on June 28, 1927, which falls in a Fire Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
F. Sherwood Rowland's birth date, June 28, 1927, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in F. Sherwood Rowland’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in F. Sherwood Rowland's date-only chart is Jupiter trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- F. Sherwood Rowland combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Strategist.
F. Sherwood Rowland’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 5° Gemini or Cancer 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
stableJupitertrineSaturn0.3° to 0.4° orb
F. Sherwood Rowland’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus0.9° orb
F. Sherwood Rowland’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSaturntrineUranus1.2° to 1.3° orb
F. Sherwood Rowland’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMercurytrineSaturn1.9° to 2.5° orb
stableSunsquareUranus2.1° to 3.1° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter2.3° to 2.8° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter3.1° to 3.9° orb
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune3.1° to 4.1° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus3.2° to 3.7° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars7.6° to 8.0° orb
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.0° to 12.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 11.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire6 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
F. Sherwood Rowland’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 5°17′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 9°24′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 13°55′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 7°43′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 12°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Sun 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 0.7°
- Eros conjunction Pluto 1.3°
- Hygiea square Sun 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 2.4°
F. Sherwood Rowland’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
Configurations in F. Sherwood Rowland’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, PlutoThree 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.
Grand trine · Mercury, Jupiter, SaturnThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.- Grand trine · Mercury, Saturn, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.4°
- Mars semi-sextile Pluto 1.7°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.9°
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From the journal: The modern vs traditional rulers debate · 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign
F. Sherwood Rowland’s cards
Computed from June 28, 1927. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Tidal StrategistWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
8 · Achiever☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
F. Sherwood Rowland’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q111190 (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 Markus Pössel (Mapos), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same F. Sherwood Rowland at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by F. Sherwood Rowland.
Quick answers about F. Sherwood Rowland’s chart
- What zodiac sign was F. Sherwood Rowland?
- F. Sherwood Rowland was a Cancer: born June 28, 1927, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was F. Sherwood Rowland's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 28, 1927 birth.
- What was F. Sherwood Rowland's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was F. Sherwood Rowland's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was F. Sherwood Rowland's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was F. Sherwood Rowland's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto). Sun is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
