Gary Ruvkun
Gary Ruvkun (born March 26, 1952, Berkeley, United States), aged 74, is an American geneticist. Ruvkun's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology and Benjamin Franklin Medal.
Gary Ruvkun’s zodiac sign is Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Dragon, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Dragon, with 
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Gary Ruvkun’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Strategist
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Gary in the U.S.?
#1073
US rank in 2025
~905,438
Americans share it since 1880
1952
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Gary’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Aquamarine, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus
Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Soft pink
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Gary, according to the stars
Core essence
Gary leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Gary is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Gary runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Gary needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Gary wants to be loved
Gary wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Gary, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Gary creates
How Gary makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Gary creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Gary is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Gary is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Gary leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Gary runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Gary's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Gary sits
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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.
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The quick version
Aries Sun
Aries SunFires first. Thinks later.
Gary Ruvkun's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 26, 1952, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Water Dragon
Water DragonBig energy, bigger plans.
Gary Ruvkun was born on March 26, 1952, which falls in a Water Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
Gary Ruvkun's birth date, March 26, 1952, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Gary’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Gary Ruvkun's date-only chart is Mercury opposition Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Jupiter, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Gary Ruvkun combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Strategist.
Gary’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Gary Ruvkun, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 12° to 25° Aries depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune0.3° orb
Gary’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
stableMarssquarePluto0.9° orb
Gary’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurytrinePluto1.0° orb
Gary’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune1.2° to 1.5° orb
Gary’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.4° orb
Gary’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter1.5° to 1.8° orb
Gary’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenustrineUranus2.1° to 3.3° orb
Gary’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableSaturnsquareUranus2.1° to 2.2° orb
Gary’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableJupitertrinePluto2.6° to 2.8° orb
Gary’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableSunsquareUranus3.3° to 4.3° orb
Gary’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableVenustrineMars5.2° to 6.5° orb
Gary’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableSunoppositionSaturn5.4° to 6.5° orb
Gary’s core identity pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal7 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Gary’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 12°04′ (moves 0.03° 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. Gary is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ CeresAries 15°38′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Gary looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosGemini 23°29′ (moves 0.94° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Gary is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ HygieaAries 14°14′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Gary feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 29°44′ (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 Gary guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Chiron square Saturn 0.0°
- Chiron sextile Venus 0.5°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 1.4°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.1°
- Hygiea opposition Saturn 2.2°
- Eros trine Neptune 2.8°
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°).
Gary’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. ♂ Mars8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Saturn, Neptune; 2 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Gary is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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 Gary’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 in Aries · Sun, Mercury, JupiterThree 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.
T-square onto Uranus · Sun, Saturn, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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 quincunx Saturn 0.5°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.7°
- Mercury quincunx Mars 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Gary Ruvkun, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Gary
Dato Sri Tahir was born on March 26, 1952 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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Gary’s cards
Every card is computed from March 26, 1952, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Gary Ruvkun, 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
Gary’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q504021, 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 Arthur Petron, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Gary Ruvkun at Wikipedia.
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 Gary Ruvkun.
Quick answers about Gary Ruvkun’s chart
- How old is Gary Ruvkun?
- Gary Ruvkun is 74 years old, born March 26, 1952 in Berkeley, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Gary Ruvkun?
- Gary Ruvkun is an Aries: born March 26, 1952, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Dragon.
- What is Gary Ruvkun's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 26, 1952 birth.
- What time was Gary Ruvkun 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 Gary Ruvkun's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the March 26, 1952 birth date.
- What is Gary Ruvkun's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 26, 1952 birth date.
- Where is Gary Ruvkun's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Gary Ruvkun's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
