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Frank Wilczek

Frank Wilczek (born May 15, 1951, Mineola, United States), aged 75, is an American theoretical physicist. Wilczek is best known for quantum chromodynamics. Wilczek's honours include Commander of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, honorary doctor of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow and ICTP Dirac Medal.

Frank Wilczek’s zodiac sign is Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Frank Wilczek’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Lightkeeper

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Frank in the U.S.?

#514

US rank in 2025

~920,589

Americans share it since 1880

1918

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Frank’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

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

Lucky numbers

9 · 3 · 4 · 6

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

West

Season

autumn

Stones

Emerald, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Camellia

Ivory · Blush · Silver

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Frank, according to the stars

Core essence

Frank is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Frank is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

The vibe

Underneath, Frank 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 Frank needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.

How Frank wants to be loved

Frank 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. Frank gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Frank creates

How Frank makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Frank creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.

Instinct

Instinct: Frank 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Frank is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Frank 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 Frank's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Frank sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Frank

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Frank

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Frank

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Frank

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Frank

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Frank

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

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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.

Taurus Sun

Try rushing a Taurus. Go on.

Frank Wilczek's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 15, 1951, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.

Metal Rabbit

Three steps ahead, no fuss.

Frank Wilczek was born on May 15, 1951, which falls in a Metal 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 9

Carries the whole room's weight.

Frank Wilczek's birth date, May 15, 1951, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.

What stands out in Frank’s chart

Frank’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Frank Wilczek, 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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars flows with Saturn · Trine, 0° orbVenus grinds against Jupiter · Square, 0.1° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.2° orbSun fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 1.7° orbSun flows with Saturn · Trine, 1.7° orbVenus fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 1.8° orbJupiter grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.9° orbMoon opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3.7° orbSun in Taurus · 24°01′24°Moon in Virgo · 10°44′10°Mercury in Taurus · 0°18′Venus in Cancer · 5°14′Mars in Taurus · 25°44′25°Jupiter in Aries · 5°06′Saturn in Virgo · 25°42′ · retrograde25°Uranus in Cancer · 7°01′Neptune in Libra · 17°14′ · retrograde17°Pluto in Leo · 17°28′17°

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
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.

  • stableVenussquareJupiter0.0° to 0.6° orb

    Frank’s affections grind against their growth.

  • stableMarstrineSaturn0.0° to 0.4° orb

    Frank’s drive flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.2° orb

    Frank’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSuntrineSaturn1.2° to 2.2° orb

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

  • stableVenusconjunctionUranus1.2° to 2.3° orb

    Frank’s affections and need for freedom act as one.

  • stableSunconjunctionMars1.6° to 1.9° orb

    Frank’s core identity and drive act as one.

  • stableJupitersquareUranus1.8° to 2.0° orb

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

  • possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.0° to 10.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 11.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 4.3° to 16.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMercurysextileVenusorb from 4.6° to 5.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunsquarePlutoorb from 6.1° to 7.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth5 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

Frank’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.

  • ChironCapricorn 1°59′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Frank is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.

  • CeresPisces 8°34′ (moves 0.25° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Frank is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.

  • ErosPisces 14°26′ (moves 0.49° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Frank is read as easily moved and hard to pin.

  • HygieaPisces 12°26′ (moves 0.25° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Frank needing solitude to reset.

  • Black Moon LilithGemini 24°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Frank that says the unsayable and does not take it back.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 1.2°
  • Ceres trine Uranus 1.6°
  • Chiron trine Mercury 1.7°

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°).

Frank’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. Venus9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. Sun3 pts

    disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. Mars3 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects

A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Frank 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 Frank’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, the shape it makesStellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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.

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 biquintile Neptune 0.8°
  • Mercury biquintile Saturn 1.4°

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

Born the same day as Frank

Nancy Walton Laurie was born on May 15, 1951 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.

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Frank’s cards

Every card is computed from May 15, 1951, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

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AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Lightkeeper

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Western zodiac

Taurus

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Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

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♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

yin Metal

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

yin Water

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

yin Wood

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Frank Wilczek, 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

Frank’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q107450, 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 Bengt Oberger, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Frank Wilczek at Wikipedia, frankawilczek.com, X 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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Frank Wilczek.

Quick answers about Frank Wilczek’s chart

How old is Frank Wilczek?
Frank Wilczek is 75 years old, born May 15, 1951 in Mineola, United States.
What zodiac sign is Frank Wilczek?
Frank Wilczek is a Taurus: born May 15, 1951, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rabbit.
What is Frank Wilczek's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 15, 1951 birth.
What time was Frank Wilczek 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 is Frank Wilczek's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the May 15, 1951 birth date.
What is Frank Wilczek's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 15, 1951 birth date.
Where is Frank Wilczek's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Frank Wilczek's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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