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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rabbit, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Rabbit, with 
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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.
F. Sherwood Rowland’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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.
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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.
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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. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
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. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
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. 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 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
No documented birth time exists for F. Sherwood Rowland, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 21° to 5° Gemini or Cancer 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.
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
F. Sherwood Rowland’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableSunsquareUranus2.1° to 3.1° orb
F. Sherwood Rowland’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMercurytrineJupiter2.3° to 2.8° orb
F. Sherwood Rowland’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsquareJupiter3.1° to 3.9° orb
F. Sherwood Rowland’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune3.1° to 4.1° orb
F. Sherwood Rowland’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurytrineUranus3.2° to 3.7° orb
F. Sherwood Rowland’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenusconjunctionMars7.6° to 8.0° orb
F. Sherwood Rowland’s affections and drive act as one.
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
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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 5°17′ (moves 0.04° 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 F. Sherwood Rowland building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 9°24′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. F. Sherwood Rowland is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosCancer 13°55′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. F. Sherwood Rowland is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaLibra 7°43′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. F. Sherwood Rowland is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 12°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of F. Sherwood Rowland that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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.
- 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°
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°).
F. Sherwood Rowland’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. ☽ 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
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: F. Sherwood Rowland is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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 F. Sherwood Rowland’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 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 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 semi-square Venus 0.4°
- Mars semi-sextile Pluto 1.7°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for F. Sherwood Rowland, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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F. Sherwood Rowland’s cards
Every card is computed from June 28, 1927, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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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
No birth time is on public record for F. Sherwood Rowland, 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
F. Sherwood Rowland’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q111190, 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 Markus Pössel (Mapos), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same F. Sherwood Rowland 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rabbit.
- 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 time was F. Sherwood Rowland 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 was F. Sherwood Rowland's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the June 28, 1927 birth date.
- What was F. Sherwood Rowland's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 28, 1927 birth date.
- 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.
