Fraser Stoddart
Fraser Stoddart (born May 24, 1942, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; died 2024), was a Scottish chemist and Nobel Laureate in 2016 for the design and synthesis of molecular machines. Stoddart is best remembered for mechanically interlocked molecular architectures. Stoddart's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Knight Bachelor and Albert Einstein World Award of Science.
Fraser Stoddart’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Water Horse, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Horse, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Fraser
Fraser Stoddart’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Seeker
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Fraser in the U.S.?
#5686
US rank in 2025
~551
Americans share it since 1915
2024
its peak year
In 1942, 6 American boys were registered Fraser — 3,339th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Fraser’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on F (6) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Fraser’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus
Ivory · Lilac · Soft pink
The record
What sets Fraser apart
Bob Dylan (1941) and Joseph Brodsky (1940) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Fraser, according to the stars
Core essence
Fraser 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. Fraser needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Fraser 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 Fraser needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Fraser wants to be loved
Fraser wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Fraser creates
How Fraser 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. Fraser 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: Fraser is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Fraser 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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Fraser does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Fraser's birth date. Working below.
Where Fraser sits
Six lines
Fraser’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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 be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Fraser Stoddart
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh that night
Computed for 55.95°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Edinburgh was Merak, in Ursa Major, 89.1° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 102 catalog stars were up in all.
Edinburgh sits at 56.0°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −34.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Edinburgh on any night.
Sun -10° below the horizon, Moon up and 65% lit at first quarter.
How unusual Fraser's chart is
Chart pattern score
65 / 100 · Unusual
5-planet stellium in Gemini · A bowl chart · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunTwo minds, both talking.
Fraser Stoddart's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 24, 1942, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Water Horse
Water HorseOpen road, open heart.
Fraser Stoddart was born on May 24, 1942, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Compassion at scale.
Fraser Stoddart's birth date, May 24, 1942, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Fraser’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Fraser Stoddart's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five planets, Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Fraser Stoddart combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Seeker.
Fraser’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 21° Virgo 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
stableSunconjunctionSaturn0.2° to 1.0° orb
Fraser’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunsextilePluto0.7° to 1.6° orb
Fraser’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitersquareNeptune0.8° to 1.1° orb
Fraser’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus1.4° to 1.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionUranus1.6° to 2.5° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto1.7° to 1.8° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter2.4° to 2.8° orb
stableVenussquareMars2.8° to 3.3° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus3.1° to 3.6° orb
stableUranussextilePluto3.2° to 3.3° orb
stableMercurysquareNeptune3.3° to 3.8° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune3.4° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable7 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Fraser’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLeo 9°56′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 23°20′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 24°05′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 22°38′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 19°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Mercury 0.3°
- Eros trine Mercury 0.5°
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 1.0°
- Eros trine Jupiter 2.1°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 2.4°
- Ceres square Jupiter 2.9°
Fraser’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury13 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune5 pts
5 major aspects
Configurations in Fraser’s chart
Stellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, UranusThree 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars semi-square Saturn 0.2°
- Sun semi-square Mars 0.4°
- Mars semi-square Uranus 1.7°
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Born in Horse years
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Also born on May 24
- Bob Dylan1941
- Joseph Brodsky1940
- Mikhail Sholokhov1905
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Fellow Yin Fire day masters
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Other Gemini Horse charts
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- Koni De WinterBelgian association football player
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Other Radiant Seekers
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From the journal: Is astrology real or fake? · Sect: day charts vs night charts
Fraser’s cards
Computed from May 24, 1942. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Radiant SeekerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
9 · Healer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Fraser’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q376243 (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.
Portrait by Bengt Nyman from Vaxholm, Sweden, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Fraser Stoddart at Wikipedia and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Fraser Stoddart.
Quick answers about Fraser Stoddart’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Fraser Stoddart?
- Fraser Stoddart was a Gemini: born May 24, 1942, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What was Fraser Stoddart's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 24, 1942 birth.
- What was Fraser Stoddart's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Fraser Stoddart's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Fraser Stoddart's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Fraser Stoddart's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
