George Davis Snell
George Davis Snell (born December 19, 1903, Bradford, United States; died 1996), was an American geneticist. Snell's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Canada Gairdner International Award and Guggenheim Fellowship.
George Davis Snell’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Water Rabbit, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rabbit, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with George
George Davis Snell’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Storyteller
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name George in the U.S.?
#126
US rank in 2025
~1,497,260
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
George ranked 4th among boys and 644th among girls in 1903, the year of this birth, with 3,961 American boys and 27 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What George’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on G (7) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
George’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 💠 Water Lily
Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1903, 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 George apart
George Davis Snell took the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1953, at 50.
Training came by way of Dartmouth College and Harvard University.
Wikipedia's editors put George Davis Snell under People from Bar Harbor, Maine, Wolf Prize in Medicine laureates and Washington University School of Medicine faculty.
Jake Gyllenhaal (1980) and Alexis Sánchez (1988) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Dartmouth College and Harvard University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1980), Wolf Prize in Medicine (1978) and Canada Gairdner International Award (1976)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 46
What the chart says
George, according to the stars
Core essence
George is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of George 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 George wants to be loved
George wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with George even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How George creates
How George makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. George 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: George 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. George 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: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. George goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from George's birth date. Working below.
Where George sits
Six lines
George’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 George Davis Snell
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Bradford 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 Bradford that night
Computed for 42.77°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Bradford at 9 p.m. that evening: Algol of Perseus, within 2.3° of the exact zenith.
Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 42.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Bradford at all: they sit past the −47.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at new moon, 2% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 51° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Bradford, United States
The death is recorded at Bar Harbor, Hancock County in 1996.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for George Davis Snell: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual George's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →George Davis Snell at a glance
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunSays the quiet part loud.
George Davis Snell's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 19, 1903, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Water Rabbit
Water RabbitThree steps ahead, no fuss.
George Davis Snell was born on December 19, 1903, which falls in a Water Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
George Davis Snell's birth date, December 19, 1903, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in George’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in George Davis Snell's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Air/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- George Davis Snell combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Storyteller.
George’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 11° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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
stableMoonoppositionNeptune0.1° to 7.2° orb
George’s feelings pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunconjunctionUranus0.3° to 1.3° orb
George’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.
stableMercurysextileVenus0.5° to 0.9° orb
George’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn0.7° to 1.4° orb
stableMercurysextileJupiter3.5° to 4.9° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto3.5° to 3.6° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn3.9° to 4.9° orb
stableVenustrineJupiter4.4° to 5.4° orb
stableVenussquareMars5.3° to 5.6° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune5.8° to 6.9° orb
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune6.3° to 7.9° orb
stableUranusoppositionPluto6.3° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
George’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 21°23′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 21°02′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 8°12′ (moves 0.57° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 8°55′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 15°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros conjunction Saturn 1.5°
- Hygiea square Venus 2.2°
- Hygiea opposition Saturn 2.2°
- Eros conjunction Mars 2.5°
- Eros square Venus 2.9°
George’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Uranus; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
5 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
Configurations in George’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 semi-square Uranus 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.5°
- Mars quincunx Neptune 0.9°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.1°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 1.9°
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From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
George’s cards
Computed from December 19, 1903. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StorytellerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
8 · Achiever♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
George’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q295666 (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.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by George Davis Snell.
Quick answers about George Davis Snell’s chart
- What zodiac sign was George Davis Snell?
- George Davis Snell was a Sagittarius: born December 19, 1903, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What was George Davis Snell's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 19, 1903 birth.
- What was George Davis Snell's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was George Davis Snell's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was George Davis Snell's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was George Davis Snell's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
