Francis Crick
Francis Crick (born June 8, 1916, Northampton, United Kingdom; died 2004), was a British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA. Crick is best remembered for Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature. Crick's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Order of Merit and Copley Medal.
Francis Crick’s zodiac sign was Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Dragon, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
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Francis Crick’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Explorer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical plane.
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Francis’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
22 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌺 Poppy
Rose pink · Lilac · Flame orange
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What the chart says
Francis, according to the stars
Core essence
Francis is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Francis needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Francis 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 Francis needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Francis wants to be loved
Francis wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Francis gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Francis creates
How Francis 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. Francis 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: Francis is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Francis is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Francis channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Francis's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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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Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFour conversations, one person.
Francis Crick's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 8, 1916, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Fire Dragon
Fire DragonSets the standard, then raises it.
Francis Crick was born on June 8, 1916, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 22
Life Path 22Big blueprint, real hands.
Francis Crick's birth date, June 8, 1916, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 22 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with large-scale building: ambitious ideas combined with the practical structure to realise them. Numerologists read it as an intensified 4, the builder working at the scale of institutions. The corresponding tension is the gap between vision and execution, with the caution that a plan this large can stall on its own weight.
What stands out in Francis’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Francis Crick's date-only chart is Sun trine Uranus, with an orb of about 2°.
- Three planets, Venus, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Air/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Francis Crick combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Explorer.
Francis’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Francis Crick, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 4° to 17° 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.
stableSuntrineUranus1.8° to 2.8° orb
Francis’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMarssextilePluto2.6° to 3.0° orb
Francis’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.9° to 4.4° orb
Francis’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn3.7° orb
Francis’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitersquareNeptune3.9° to 4.0° orb
Francis’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurytrineUranus5.7° to 6.2° orb
Francis’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 0.0° to 11.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 9.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 10.8° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.5° to 11.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 2.2° to 14.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 2.5° to 14.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Francis’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.
⚷ ChironPisces 26°09′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Francis absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresCancer 2°05′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Francis is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosAries 23°27′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Francis is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaLibra 15°28′ (moves 0.06° 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. Francis is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 13°05′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Francis guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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.
- Ceres conjunction Pluto 0.3°
- Hygiea square Saturn 0.3°
- Hygiea trine Sun 1.8°
- Hygiea trine Mercury 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Saturn 2.7°
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°).
Francis’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. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus4 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Francis is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Francis’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Venus quincunx Uranus 0.2°
- Venus semi-square Mars 0.8°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 1.5°
- Sun semi-square Neptune 1.5°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.6°
- Mercury semi-square Jupiter 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Francis Crick, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Francis’s cards
Every card is computed from June 8, 1916, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Francis Crick, 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
Francis’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q123280, 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 Unknown authorUnknown author, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Francis Crick at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
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 Francis Crick’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Francis Crick?
- Francis Crick was a Gemini: born June 8, 1916, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Dragon.
- What was Francis Crick's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 8, 1916 birth.
- What time was Francis Crick 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 Francis Crick's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology from the June 8, 1916 birth date.
- What was Francis Crick's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 8, 1916 birth date.
- Where was Francis Crick's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Francis Crick's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
