George Emil Palade
George Emil Palade (born November 19, 1912, Iași, Romania; died 2008), was a Romanian cell biologist, physician and Nobel laureate. Palade's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Order of the Star of Romania and National Medal of Science.
George Emil Palade’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Water Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rat, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with George
George Emil Palade’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Lightkeeper
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive 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
The SSA recorded 11,734 American boys and 69 girls named George in 1912: 6th among boys and 584th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What George’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
1
Soul Urge · independence
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
7 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus
Gold · Crimson · Soft pink
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 1912, 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
The Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research came in 1966, when George Emil Palade was 54.
George Emil Palade was taught at Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu National College and University of Bucharest.
George Emil Palade lies at Rocky Mountains.
The family line: married Marilyn Farquhar.
Wikipedia files George Emil Palade under Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy alumni, Academic staff of the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy and Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu National College alumni.
Indira Gandhi (1917) and Jodie Foster (1962) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu National College and University of Bucharest
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1974), National Medal of Science (1986) and Canada Gairdner International Award (1967)
- Buried at
- Rocky Mountains
- Citizenship
- United States and Romania
- Languages
- English and Romanian
- Wikipedia editions
- 60
What the chart says
George, according to the stars
Core essence
George does not do surface. The core of George 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 George is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, George is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What George needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How George wants to be loved
George 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 George you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How George creates
How George makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. George creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: George 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. George is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means George 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 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 may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Emil Palade
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Iași 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 Iași that night
Computed for 47.16°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Schedar stood nearest the zenith over Iași at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.4° above the horizon in Cassiopeia.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 100 catalog stars were up in all.
At 47.2°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −42.8° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 76% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 47° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Iași, Romania
The death is recorded at Del Mar, San Diego County in 2008.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for George Emil Palade: 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
16 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
3 planets at a critical degree
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 Emil Palade at a glance
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunTrusts slowly. Forgets nothing.
George Emil Palade's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 19, 1912, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Water Rat
Water RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
George Emil Palade was born on November 19, 1912, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Needs the quiet to work.
George Emil Palade's birth date, November 19, 1912, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in George’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in George Emil Palade's date-only chart is Saturn trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- George Emil Palade combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Lightkeeper.
George’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 29° Pisces 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
stableSuntrineNeptune0.3° to 1.3° orb
George’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter0.7° to 1.5° orb
George’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSaturntrineUranus0.7° to 0.8° orb
George’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableVenusoppositionPluto1.2° to 2.5° orb
stableSunsextileUranus3.0° to 4.0° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune3.2° to 4.0° orb
stableSunoppositionSaturn3.6° to 4.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars4.3° to 4.6° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune4.3° orb
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.0° to 10.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 9.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 8.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
George’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 6°26′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 25°19′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 11°41′ (moves 0.48° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 12°40′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 18°35′ (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 sextile Mercury 0.2°
- Ceres square Neptune 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 1.4°
George’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mars; 1 major aspect
2. ♅ Uranus5 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
4 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.
- Jupiter biquintile Neptune 0.1°
- Venus quincunx Saturn 0.6°
- Uranus quincunx Pluto 0.6°
- Mercury biquintile Neptune 1.1°
- Venus semi-sextile Uranus 1.3°
- Mars biquintile Pluto 1.3°
- Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 1.3°
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George’s cards
Computed from November 19, 1912. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast LightkeeperWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
7 · Seeker♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
George’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q219718 (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 Post of Romania, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same George Emil Palade at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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Quick answers about George Emil Palade’s chart
- What zodiac sign was George Emil Palade?
- George Emil Palade was a Scorpio: born November 19, 1912, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was George Emil Palade's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 19, 1912 birth.
- What was George Emil Palade's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was George Emil Palade's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was George Emil Palade's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was George Emil Palade's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mars; 1 major aspect). Uranus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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