George F. Smoot
George F. Smoot (born February 20, 1945, Yukon, United States; died 2025), was an American astrophysicist and cosmologist. Smoot's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Albert Einstein Medal and Oersted Medal.
George F. Smoot’s zodiac sign was Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Rooster, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Rooster, with 
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George F. Smoot’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Explorer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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
US Social Security Administration public records
George’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🌿 Fern
Violet · Rose-gold · Forest
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What the chart says
George, according to the stars
Core essence
George feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of George is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
The vibe
Underneath, George processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What George needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How George wants to be loved
George wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How George creates
How George makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. George creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: George is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. George is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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The quick version
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunSoft edges, deep pull.
George F. Smoot's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 20, 1945, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
Wood Rooster
Wood RoosterPunctual, precise, proud.
George F. Smoot was born on February 20, 1945, which falls in a Wood Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Five doors open at once.
George F. Smoot's birth date, February 20, 1945, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in George’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in George F. Smoot's date-only chart is Uranus sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto.
- George F. Smoot combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Explorer.
George’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for George F. Smoot, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 24° Gemini 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.
stableUranussextilePluto0.5° orb
George’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarstrineNeptune0.7° to 1.5° orb
George’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSuntrineSaturn1.8° to 2.8° orb
George’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune1.9° orb
George’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.7° orb
George’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranustrineNeptune3.2° orb
George’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarsoppositionPluto3.4° to 4.2° orb
George’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarstrineUranus3.9° to 4.7° orb
George’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunconjunctionMercury6.3° to 7.0° orb
George’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 7.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.4° to 13.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 1.2° to 12.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
George’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Libra 2°18′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Libra is read as a wound around fairness and partnership. George is read as someone who learnt what a fair deal looks like by living through unfair ones.
⚳ CeresScorpio 7°34′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. George is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosGemini 5°04′ (moves 0.87° 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. George is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 22°12′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. George is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 11°04′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of George that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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.
- Eros trine Mars 0.2°
- Eros trine Neptune 0.9°
- Ceres square Pluto 1.0°
- Chiron square Saturn 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 2.0°
- Chiron trine Mars 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 2.5°
- Ceres square Mars 2.8°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 3.0°
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°).
George’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. ♆ Neptune8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Mercury, Mars; 3 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: George is read as tuned to what is not said.
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 George’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.
Kite · Mars, Uranus, Neptune, PlutoA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
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.
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 0.1°
- Venus quintile Mars 0.4°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.5°
- Mars quincunx Saturn 0.8°
- Jupiter semi-square Pluto 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for George F. Smoot, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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George’s cards
Every card is computed from February 20, 1945, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for George F. Smoot, 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
George’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q179572, 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 Nomo michael hoefner http://www.zwo5.de, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same George F. Smoot at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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.
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Quick answers about George F. Smoot’s chart
- What zodiac sign was George F. Smoot?
- George F. Smoot was a Pisces: born February 20, 1945, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Rooster.
- What was George F. Smoot's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 20, 1945 birth.
- What time was George F. Smoot 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 was George F. Smoot's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the February 20, 1945 birth date.
- What was George F. Smoot's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 20, 1945 birth date.
- Where was George F. Smoot's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was George F. Smoot's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Uranus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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