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, Chinese zodiac is Water Dragon, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Dragon, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Gary
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
The SSA recorded 38,754 American boys and 85 girls named Gary in 1952: 10th among boys and 1,019th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Gary’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
7
Soul Urge · understanding
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on G (7) and closes on Y (7).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Gary’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1952, 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 Gary apart
The Rosenstiel Award came in 2004, when Gary Ruvkun was 52.
Gary Ruvkun was taught at University of California, Berkeley and Harvard Medical School.
The family line: married Natasha Staller.
Wikipedia files Gary Ruvkun under Scientists from Berkeley, California, Biogerontologists and Harvard Medical School faculty.
Dato Sri Tahir shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- University of California, Berkeley and Harvard Medical School
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2024), Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (2009) and Dan David Prize (2011)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 52
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. Working below.
Where Gary sits
Six lines
Gary’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 Gary Ruvkun
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Berkeley 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 Berkeley that night
Computed for 37.87°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alkaphrah stood nearest the zenith over Berkeley at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.4° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.
Berkeley sits at 37.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −52.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at new moon, 3% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 29° down.
How unusual Gary's chart is
Chart pattern score
68 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Aries · T-square onto Uranus · Five planets retrograde
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 →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.
What Aries means →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.
What the Dragon means →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.
What Life Path 1 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 25° Aries 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
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
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.4° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter1.5° to 1.8° orb
stableVenustrineUranus2.1° to 3.3° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus2.1° to 2.2° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto2.6° to 2.8° orb
stableSunsquareUranus3.3° to 4.3° orb
stableVenustrineMars5.2° to 6.5° orb
stableSunoppositionSaturn5.4° to 6.5° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 12°04′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 15°38′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 23°29′ (moves 0.94° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 14°14′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 29°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Gary’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Gary’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus quincunx Saturn 0.5°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.7°
- Mercury quincunx Mars 2.0°
Born the same day as Gary
Dato Sri Tahir was born on March 26, 1952 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 37.9°N, the sky above Berkeley stops at −52.1° declination. Same sky, different lives.
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Fellow Aries suns
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- Michael W. YoungAmerican geneticist, chronobiologist
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Born in Dragon years
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- Kenzō TsujimotoJapanese businessman
- Oleg BoykoRussian businessman
Also born on March 26
- Richard Dawkins1941
- Larry Page1973
- Diana Ross1944
- Martin Short1950
- Jonathan Groff1985
- Guccio Gucci1881
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Katharine HepburnAmerican actress
- Yo-Yo MaAmerican cellist (born 1955)
- John KanderAmerican musical theatre composer
Other Aries Dragon charts
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Other Gilded Strategists
- Albert HackettAmerican screenwriter
- Ayad AkhtarAmerican actor and playwright
- John Patrick ShanleyAmerican writer
- Edward BokDutch-born American editor and writer
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Mike GesickiAmerican football player
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From the journal: Cusp signs aren't real. Here's why · Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say
Gary’s cards
Computed from March 26, 1952. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StrategistWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
1 · Pioneer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Gary’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q504021 (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 Petron, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Gary Ruvkun at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Gary Ruvkun's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Gary Ruvkun's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
