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Fred Ramsdell

Fred Ramsdell (born December 4, 1960, Elmhurst, United States), aged 65, is an American immunologist. Ramsdell's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and Crafoord Prize.

Fred Ramsdell’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Fred Ramsdell’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 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

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

#1936

US rank in 2025

~345,684

Americans share it since 1880

1924

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Fred’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

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

Lucky numbers

5 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

West

Season

autumn

Stones

Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Magnolia

Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white

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

What the chart says

Fred, according to the stars

Core essence

Fred is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Fred is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

How Fred wants to be loved

Fred wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Fred you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Fred creates

How Fred 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. Fred 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: Fred is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Fred is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Fred 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 Fred's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Fred sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Fred

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Fred

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Fred

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Fred

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Fred

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Fred

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Fred Ramsdell

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

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.

Fred Ramsdell at a glance

Sagittarius Sun

Blunt, cheerful, gone by morning.

Fred Ramsdell's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 4, 1960, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.

Metal Rat

Quick, clever, never stuck.

Fred Ramsdell was born on December 4, 1960, which falls in a Metal Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.

Life Path 5

Change finds them anyway.

Fred Ramsdell's birth date, December 4, 1960, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.

What stands out in Fred’s chart

Fred’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Fred Ramsdell, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 24° to 6° Gemini or Cancer depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.2° orbJupiter flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.2° orbMars faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 0.7° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.9° orbJupiter opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.2° orbMercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 2.3° orbMoon opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 4.3° orbSun grinds against Pluto · Square, 4.5° orbSun in Sagittarius · 12°36′12°Moon in Cancer · 0°04′Mercury in Scorpio · 25°39′25°Venus in Capricorn · 23°19′23°Mars in Cancer · 17°16′ · retrograde17°Jupiter in Capricorn · 7°53′Saturn in Capricorn · 16°31′16°Uranus in Leo · 25°48′ · retrograde25°Neptune in Scorpio · 10°04′10°Pluto in Virgo · 8°08′

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.

  • stableMercurysquareUranus0.0° to 0.9° orb

    Fred’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableJupitertrinePluto0.1° to 0.4° orb

    Fred’s growth flows straight into their depths.

  • stableMarsoppositionSaturn0.6° to 0.9° orb

    Fred’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.9° to 2.0° orb

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

  • stableJupitersextileNeptune2.1° to 2.3° orb

    Fred’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercurysextileVenus2.2° to 2.4° orb

    Fred’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSunsquarePluto4.0° to 5.0° orb

    Fred’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableVenusoppositionMars5.4° to 6.8° orb

    Fred’s affections pull against their drive from across the wheel.

  • stableVenusconjunctionSaturn6.3° to 7.3° orb

    Fred’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.0° to 10.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 1.9° to 13.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 2.1° to 14.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Air signs.

Fred’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.

  • ChironAquarius 27°48′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Fred making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.

  • CeresAquarius 24°15′ (moves 0.27° 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. Fred is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.

  • ErosVirgo 15°20′ (moves 0.93° over the day)

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

    Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Fred is read as slow to start and exact once started.

  • HygieaScorpio 2°50′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Fred carrying stress in the body until it is named.

  • Black Moon LilithCancer 23°26′ (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 Fred guarding a private self that family did not get to name.

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 opposition Venus 0.1°
  • Eros trine Saturn 1.2°
  • Ceres square Mercury 1.4°
  • Ceres opposition Uranus 1.5°
  • Eros sextile Mars 1.9°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 2.0°
  • Chiron square Mercury 2.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 2.2°
  • Eros square Sun 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°).

Fred’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. Jupiter6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. Saturn6 pts

    in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Venus, Jupiter; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. Pluto5 pts

    disposes Mercury, Neptune; 3 major aspects

A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Fred is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.

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 Fred’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 0.2°
  • Sun biquintile Mars 1.3°
  • Venus quintile Neptune 1.3°
  • Venus quincunx Uranus 2.5°

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

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Fred’s cards

Every card is computed from December 4, 1960, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

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AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Explorer

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Western zodiac

Sagittarius

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Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

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♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

yang Metal

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

yin Fire

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

yang Fire

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Fred Ramsdell, 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

Fred’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q28212107, 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 US Embassy Sweden, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Fred Ramsdell at Wikipedia and IMDb.

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 Fred Ramsdell.

Quick answers about Fred Ramsdell’s chart

How old is Fred Ramsdell?
Fred Ramsdell is 65 years old, born December 4, 1960 in Elmhurst, United States.
What zodiac sign is Fred Ramsdell?
Fred Ramsdell is a Sagittarius: born December 4, 1960, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rat.
What is Fred Ramsdell's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 4, 1960 birth.
What time was Fred Ramsdell 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 Fred Ramsdell's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the December 4, 1960 birth date.
What is Fred Ramsdell's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 4, 1960 birth date.
Where is Fred Ramsdell's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Fred Ramsdell's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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