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Francis William Aston

Francis William Aston (born September 1, 1877, Harborne, United Kingdom; died 1945), was a British chemist. Aston is best remembered for mass spectrometry. Aston's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Royal Medal and Hughes Medal.

Francis William Aston’s zodiac sign was Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Ox, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Francis William Aston’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Healer

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional 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 Social Security Administration public records

Francis’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

6 · 1 · 9

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

Francis, according to the stars

Core essence

Francis 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 Francis is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

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 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. Francis gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Francis creates

How Francis makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Francis creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

Instinct

Instinct: Francis is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Francis 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: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Francis slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.

Computed from Francis's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Francis sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Francis

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Francis

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Francis

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Francis

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Francis

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Francis

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Francis William Aston

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Harborne on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Francis’s birth-night reference starFawarisblue-white · CygnusFawaris, in Cygnus. A blue-white star, 82.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Fawaris →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 13.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

The quick version

Virgo Sun

Helps by correcting.

Francis William Aston's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 1, 1877, 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 Ox

Says little. Finishes everything.

Francis William Aston was born on September 1, 1877, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.

Life Path 6

Care is the whole job.

Francis William Aston's birth date, September 1, 1877, 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 Francis’s chart

Francis’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Francis William Aston, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Gemini depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Uranus grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.5° orbMoon grinds against Saturn · Square, 0.8° orbSun flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.7° orbJupiter flows with Uranus · Trine, 2° orbMoon grinds against Mars · Square, 2.1° orbMars fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 2.9° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 4.1° orbSun faces off with Mars · Opposition, 5.6° orbSun in Virgo · 9°06′☉9°Moon in Gemini · 16°46′☽16°Mercury in Libra · 6°09′☿6°Venus in Libra · 10°14′♀10°Mars in Pisces · 14°41′ · retrograde♂℞14°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 24°01′♃24°Saturn in Pisces · 17°34′ · retrograde♄℞17°Uranus in Leo · 25°59′♅25°Neptune in Taurus · 7°26′ · retrograde♆℞7°Pluto in Taurus · 25°31′ · retrograde♇℞25°

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.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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.

  • stableUranussquarePluto0.4° to 0.5° orb

    Francis’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSuntrineNeptune1.2° to 2.2° orb

    Francis’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableJupitertrineUranus2.0° orb

    Francis’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMarsconjunctionSaturn2.8° to 3.0° orb

    Francis’s drive and discipline act as one.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.9° to 4.2° orb

    Francis’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSunoppositionMars5.0° to 6.2° orb

    Francis’s core identity pulls against their drive from across the wheel.

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn6.4° to 6.5° orb

    Francis’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 9.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 7.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.4° to 12.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.4° to 14.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 1.4° to 14.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable5 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.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 4°09′ (moves 0.02° 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 Francis building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 3°44′ (moves 0.12° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Francis is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.

  • ♡ Eros ℞Aries 1°07′ (moves 0.30° 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 27°44′ (moves 0.37° 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 LilithAquarius 25°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Francis at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.

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 0.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 0.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 1.7°
  • Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.8°
  • Ceres trine Mercury 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°).

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. 1. ♀ Venus6 pts

    in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts

    in its own sign, Sagittarius; 2 major aspects

A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Francis is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.

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 sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.3°
  • Venus semi-square Uranus 0.8°
  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.1°
  • Mars quintile Pluto 1.2°
  • Mercury quincunx Neptune 1.3°
  • Jupiter quincunx Pluto 1.5°
  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.6°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Francis William Aston, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Francis’s cards

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The Lovers

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The Radiant Healer

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Western zodiac

Virgo

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Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

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☿ Ruled by Mercury

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

丁

yin Fire

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Francis William Aston, 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 Q102291, 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, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Francis William Aston 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 William Aston’s chart

What zodiac sign was Francis William Aston?
Francis William Aston was a Virgo: born September 1, 1877, 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 Ox.
What was Francis William Aston's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 1, 1877 birth.
What time was Francis William Aston 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 William Aston's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the September 1, 1877 birth date.
What was Francis William Aston's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 1, 1877 birth date.
Where was Francis William Aston's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Francis William Aston's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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