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Frederick Banting

Frederick Banting (born November 14, 1891, Alliston, Canada; died 1941), was a Canadian medical scientist and doctor. Banting's honours include Canadian Medical Hall of Fame, Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Frederick Banting’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Frederick Banting’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Scholar

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

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

#435

US rank in 2025

~267,165

Americans share it since 1880

1951

its peak year

The SSA recorded 412 American boys named Frederick in 1891: 44th for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Frederick’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

2

Soul Urge · closeness

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on F (6) and closes on K (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Frederick’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

8 · 3 · 4 · 6

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia

Gold · Crimson · Silver

The record

What sets Frederick apart

Jawaharlal Nehru (1889) and Charles III (1948) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Frederick, according to the stars

Core essence

Frederick does not do surface. The core of Frederick is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Frederick is earned slowly and never given lightly.

How Frederick wants to be loved

Frederick wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Frederick and watch them fall for you again.

How Frederick creates

How Frederick makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Frederick builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

Instinct

Instinct: Frederick 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 8 is the powerhouse. Frederick is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

Triggers

Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Frederick fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Frederick's birth date. Working below.

Where Frederick sits

Six lines

Frederick’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Frederick

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Frederick

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

PrivateExpressive
Frederick

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Frederick

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

PracticalVisionary
Frederick

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Frederick

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Frederick Banting

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Alliston 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 Alliston that night

Computed for 44.15°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Alliston was Mirach, in Andromeda, 79.2° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 99 catalog stars were up in all.

From 44.1°N, Capella never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Alliston at all: they sit past the −45.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon, 99% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 46° below the horizon.

How unusual Frederick's chart is

Chart pattern score

44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

1 unaspected planet · T-square onto Jupiter

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The quick version

Scorpio Sun

Deep water, no shallow end.

Frederick Banting's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 14, 1891, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Metal Rabbit

Quiet luck follows.

Frederick Banting was born on November 14, 1891, which falls in a Metal Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rabbit means →

Life Path 8

Power, and the bill for it.

Frederick Banting's birth date, November 14, 1891, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Frederick’s chart

Frederick’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 11° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Neptune fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 0.1° orbJupiter grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.2° orbJupiter grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.3° orbMoon faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 1.4° orbVenus faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1.4° orbVenus faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 1.5° orbVenus grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1.7° orbMoon opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 3.9° orbSun in Scorpio · 22°05′☉22°Moon in Taurus · 4°25′☽4°Mercury in Sagittarius · 2°15′☿2°Venus in Sagittarius · 6°42′♀6°Mars in Libra · 15°05′♂15°Jupiter in Pisces · 8°21′♃8°Saturn in Virgo · 27°29′♄27°Uranus in Scorpio · 3°01′♅3°Neptune in Gemini · 8°05′ · retrograde♆℞8°Pluto in Gemini · 8°09′ · retrograde♇℞8°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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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

  • stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto0.1° orb

    Frederick’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune0.2° to 0.3° orb

    Frederick’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableJupitersquarePluto0.2° orb

    Frederick’s growth grinds against their depths.

  • stableVenusoppositionNeptune0.7° to 2.0° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionPluto0.8° to 2.1° orb

  • stableVenussquareJupiter1.1° to 2.3° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus4.3° to 4.6° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionNeptune5.1° to 6.6° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionPluto5.1° to 6.7° orb

  • stableJupitertrineUranus5.3° orb

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter5.4° to 6.9° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.0° to 11.3° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable6 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Frederick’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironLeo 18°05′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 22°19′ (moves 0.19° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 26°26′ (moves 0.37° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 8°17′ (moves 0.18° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 3°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea square Jupiter 0.1°
  • Hygiea conjunction Pluto 0.1°
  • Ceres square Sun 0.2°
  • Hygiea conjunction Neptune 0.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 1.4°
  • Hygiea opposition Venus 1.6°

Frederick’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Uranus; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury7 pts

    disposes Saturn, Neptune, Pluto; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter7 pts

    disposes Mercury, Venus; 5 major aspects

Configurations in Frederick’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Jupiter · Venus, Neptune, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Jupiter · Venus, Pluto, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Jupiter · Mercury, Neptune, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Jupiter · Mercury, Pluto, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mars biquintile Jupiter 0.7°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 0.8°
  • Uranus biquintile Neptune 0.9°
  • Uranus biquintile Pluto 0.9°

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Frederick’s cards

Computed from November 14, 1891. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Star

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Scholar

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

辛

yin Metal

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Frederick’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q180350 (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 Arthur Goss, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Frederick Banting at Wikipedia.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Frederick Banting.

Quick answers about Frederick Banting’s chart

What zodiac sign was Frederick Banting?
Frederick Banting was a Scorpio: born November 14, 1891, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What was Frederick Banting's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 14, 1891 birth.
What was Frederick Banting's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What was Frederick Banting's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Frederick Banting's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Frederick Banting's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Uranus; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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