Ferid Murad
Ferid Murad (born September 14, 1936, Whiting, United States; died 2023), was an American physician and pharmacologist. Murad's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and honorary doctor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Ferid Murad’s zodiac sign was Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Rat, with 
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Ferid Murad’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Healer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
Ferid’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus
Lavender · Lilac · Scarlet
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What the chart says
Ferid, according to the stars
Core essence
Ferid notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Ferid is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Ferid is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Ferid needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Ferid wants to be loved
Ferid 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. Ferid gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Ferid creates
How Ferid makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Ferid creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Ferid is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Ferid is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Ferid 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 Ferid's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunStandards nobody else can meet.
Ferid Murad's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 14, 1936, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Fire Rat
Fire RatResourceful is an understatement.
Ferid Murad was born on September 14, 1936, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Home is the project.
Ferid Murad's birth date, September 14, 1936, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Ferid’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ferid Murad's date-only chart is Jupiter square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Ferid Murad combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Healer.
Ferid’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Ferid Murad, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 3° to 16° Virgo 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.
stableJupitersquareNeptune0.3° to 0.4° orb
Ferid’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysextileJupiter0.4° to 0.6° orb
Ferid’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunoppositionSaturn2.2° to 3.3° orb
Ferid’s core identity pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune2.2° to 2.3° orb
Ferid’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupitersquareSaturn2.5° to 2.7° orb
Ferid’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.7° to 3.6° orb
Ferid’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenussextileJupiter3.1° to 4.2° orb
Ferid’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune4.5° to 5.4° orb
Ferid’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunsquareJupiter4.9° to 5.8° orb
Ferid’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableMarstrineJupiter5.9° to 6.5° orb
Ferid’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 12.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.1° to 7.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Ferid’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.
⚷ ChironGemini 23°12′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Ferid turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresScorpio 29°41′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Ferid is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosLibra 23°37′ (moves 0.75° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Ferid is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ HygieaCancer 8°26′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Ferid is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 27°50′ (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 Ferid 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.
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 0.5°
- Chiron sextile Mars 0.7°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 0.8°
- Eros sextile Mars 1.1°
- Ceres trine Pluto 1.4°
- Chiron square Sun 1.5°
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°).
Ferid’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. ♃ Jupiter8 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 6 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus6 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury, Uranus; 2 major aspects
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Ferid is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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 Ferid’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.
T-square onto Jupiter · Sun, Saturn, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Jupiter · Saturn, Neptune, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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-sextile Mars 0.9°
- Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 0.9°
- Jupiter biquintile Uranus 1.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Ferid Murad, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Ferid’s cards
Every card is computed from September 14, 1936, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Ferid Murad, 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
Ferid’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q295999, 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 Jeff Dahl, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ferid Murad 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 Ferid Murad’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Ferid Murad?
- Ferid Murad was a Virgo: born September 14, 1936, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rat.
- What was Ferid Murad's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 14, 1936 birth.
- What time was Ferid Murad 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 Ferid Murad's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the September 14, 1936 birth date.
- What was Ferid Murad's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 14, 1936 birth date.
- Where was Ferid Murad's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Ferid Murad's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: in its own sign, Sagittarius; 6 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
