Francis Peyton Rous
Francis Peyton Rous (born October 5, 1879, Baltimore, United States; died 1970), was an American scientist. Rous's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal.
Francis Peyton Rous’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Rabbit, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Francis
Francis Peyton Rous’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Pioneer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Francis in the U.S.?
#420
US rank in 2025
~320,322
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
US name records start in 1880, 1 years after this birth. In that first year Francis ranked 50th among boys and 206th among girls, with 344 American boys and 55 girls registered.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Francis’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
3
Soul Urge · being heard
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on F (6) and closes on S (1).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Francis’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 3 · 6
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Amber · Blush · Gold
The record
What sets Francis apart
Francis Peyton Rous took the John Scott Award in 1927, at 48.
Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine shaped the training.
Francis Peyton Rous was born to Frances Anderson Wood and Charles Rous, married Marion Eckford deKay and raised one child.
Wikipedia's editors put Francis Peyton Rous under American cancer researchers, Scientists from Baltimore and Rockefeller University people.
Kate Winslet (1975) and Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1966), National Medal of Science (1965) and Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1958)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 49
What the chart says
Francis, according to the stars
Core essence
Francis makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Francis is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Francis processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Francis needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Francis wants to be loved
Francis wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Francis and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Francis creates
How Francis makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Francis creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Francis 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Francis is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Francis is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Francis's birth date. Working below.
Where Francis sits
Six lines
Francis’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 Francis Peyton Rous
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Baltimore 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 Baltimore that night
Computed for 39.29°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Deneb stood nearest the zenith over Baltimore at 9 p.m. that evening, 76.0° above the horizon in Cygnus.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 92 catalog stars were up in all.
From 39.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Baltimore at all: they sit past the −50.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 37° below the horizon, Moon up and 73% lit at waning gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Baltimore, United States
The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 1970.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Francis Peyton Rous: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Francis's chart is
Chart pattern score
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Five planets retrograde · Venus retrograde
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 →The quick version
Libra Sun
Libra SunMakes the peace, keeps the peace.
Francis Peyton Rous's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 5, 1879, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Earth Rabbit
Earth RabbitSoft voice, sharp read.
Francis Peyton Rous was born on October 5, 1879, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Structure is comfort.
Francis Peyton Rous's birth date, October 5, 1879, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Francis’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Francis Peyton Rous' date-only chart is Sun conjunction Mercury, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs.
- Francis Peyton Rous combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Pioneer.
Francis’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 16° Gemini 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
stableSuntrineMoon0.0° to 7.0° orb
Francis’s core identity flows straight into their feelings.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 0.7° orb
Francis’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunoppositionSaturn0.0° to 0.8° orb
Francis’s core identity pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMoontrineMercury0.0° to 6.3° orb
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn0.0° to 1.5° orb
stableMarsconjunctionPluto1.6° orb
stableVenustrinePluto2.6° to 3.0° orb
stableJupiteroppositionUranus3.1° to 3.2° orb
stableVenustrineMars4.2° to 4.6° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune4.5° to 4.6° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter4.9° to 5.0° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto6.6° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Francis’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 11°60′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 11°12′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 18°25′ (moves 0.89° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 10°54′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 20°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Neptune 0.2°
- Chiron conjunction Neptune 0.6°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 0.6°
- Ceres sextile Sun 0.9°
- Hygiea opposition Mercury 0.9°
- Ceres trine Saturn 1.1°
- Hygiea opposition Sun 1.2°
- Hygiea conjunction Saturn 1.4°
Francis’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Venus, Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Francis’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.1°
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 0.2°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 0.4°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.4°
- Saturn biquintile Uranus 0.6°
- Sun quincunx Neptune 0.7°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 0.9°
- Mars semi-square Saturn 1.4°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Mars 1.7°
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Francis’s cards
Computed from October 5, 1879. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Gilded PioneerWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
4 · Architect♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Francis’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q298707 (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.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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Quick answers about Francis Peyton Rous’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Francis Peyton Rous?
- Francis Peyton Rous was a Libra: born October 5, 1879, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Francis Peyton Rous's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 5, 1879 birth.
- What was Francis Peyton Rous's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was Francis Peyton Rous's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Francis Peyton Rous's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Francis Peyton Rous's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
