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, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Rat, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Fred
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
Fred ranked 117th among boys and 3,413th among girls in 1960, the year of this birth, with 3,396 American boys and 14 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Fred’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
11
Soul Urge · insight
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on F (6) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 4, which numerology reads as craft.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Fred’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1960, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Fred apart
Fred Ramsdell took the Crafoord Prize in 2017, at 57.
Training came by way of University of California, San Diego and University of California, Los Angeles.
Wikipedia's editors put Fred Ramsdell under University of California, San Diego alumni, American immunologists and Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine.
Jay-Z (1969) and Tyra Banks (1973) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of California, San Diego and University of California, Los Angeles
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2025) and Crafoord Prize (2017)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 46
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. Working below.
Where Fred sits
Six lines
Fred’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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Fred Ramsdell
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Elmhurst 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 Elmhurst that night
Computed for 41.90°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Elmhurst at 9 p.m. that evening: Almach of Andromeda, within 0.5° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 41.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −48.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Elmhurst on any night.
The Moon, 96% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 51° below the horizon.
How unusual Fred's chart is
Chart pattern score
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
No Air planets · Mars retrograde · A leaning bowl
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 →Fred Ramsdell at a glance
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunBlunt, 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.
What Sagittarius means →Metal Rat
Metal RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
Fred Ramsdell was born on December 4, 1960, which falls in a Metal Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Change finds them anyway.
Fred Ramsdell's birth date, December 4, 1960, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Fred’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Fred Ramsdell's date-only chart is Mercury square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Fred Ramsdell combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Explorer.
Fred’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 6° Gemini or Cancer 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
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
stableJupitersextileNeptune2.1° to 2.3° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus2.2° to 2.4° orb
stableSunsquarePluto4.0° to 5.0° orb
stableVenusoppositionMars5.4° to 6.8° orb
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn6.3° to 7.3° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 27°48′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 24°15′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 15°20′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 2°50′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 23°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Fred’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn6 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Venus, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Mercury, Neptune; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Fred’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.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.2°
- Sun biquintile Mars 1.3°
- Venus quintile Neptune 1.3°
- Venus quincunx Uranus 2.5°
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From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
Fred’s cards
Computed from December 4, 1960. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ExplorerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
5 · Explorer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Fred’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q28212107 (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 US Embassy Sweden, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Fred Ramsdell at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Fred Ramsdell's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Fred Ramsdell's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
