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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, Chinese zodiac was Wood Rooster, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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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

In 1945, 19,327 American boys and 128 girls were registered George — 15th among boys and 647th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What George’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

1

Soul Urge · independence

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on G (7) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 6, which numerology reads as care.

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

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

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1945, 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 NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal came in 1992, when George F. Smoot was 47.

Study took George F. Smoot to Upper Arlington High School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

On the family side, George F. Smoot was born to George F. Smoot.

On Wikipedia the categories read Virtual reality, Upper Arlington High School alumni and University of California, Berkeley faculty.

Kurt Cobain (1967) and Mitch McConnell (1942) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Upper Arlington High School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Awards
Albert Einstein Medal (2003), Nobel Prize in Physics (2006) and Oersted Medal (2009)
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
76

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. Working below.

Where George sits

Six lines

George’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
George

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
George

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
George

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
George

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
George

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
George

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to George F. Smoot

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Yukon on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

George’s birth-night reference starElnathblue-white · TaurusElnath, in Taurus. A blue-white star, 86.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Elnath →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 73.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Yukon that night

Computed for 30.23°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Yukon at 9 p.m. that evening: Elnath of Taurus, within 3.2° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.

Yukon sits at 30.2°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −59.8° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux and Toliman were never visible from Yukon on any night.

Sun 22° below the horizon, Moon up and 68% lit at first quarter.

The name and the places

Born in
Yukon, United States

The death is recorded at 7th arrondissement of Paris, Paris in 2025.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for George F. Smoot: 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

39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

Grand trine · 1 unaspected planet

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.

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The quick version

Pisces Sun

Soft 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.

What Pisces means →

Wood Rooster

Punctual, precise, proud.

George F. Smoot was born on February 20, 1945, which falls in a Wood Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 5

Five doors open at once.

George F. Smoot's birth date, February 20, 1945, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in George’s chart

George’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 24° Gemini depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Uranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.5° orbMoon opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 0.8° orbMars flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.1° orbSaturn grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.9° orbSun flows with Saturn · Trine, 2.3° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.7° orbUranus flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.2° orbMars faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 3.8° orbSun in Pisces · 1°40′☉1°Moon in Gemini · 18°03′☽18°Mercury in Aquarius · 25°01′☿25°Venus in Aries · 17°12′♀17°Mars in Aquarius · 4°49′♂4°Jupiter in Virgo · 25°09′ · retrograde♃℞25°Saturn in Cancer · 4°00′ · retrograde♄℞3°Uranus in Gemini · 9°07′♅9°Neptune in Libra · 5°55′ · retrograde♆℞5°Pluto in Leo · 8°36′ · retrograde♇℞8°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • 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

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.7° orb

  • stableUranustrineNeptune3.2° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionPluto3.4° to 4.2° orb

  • stableMarstrineUranus3.9° to 4.7° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury6.3° to 7.0° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Libra 2°18′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresScorpio 7°34′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosGemini 5°04′ (moves 0.87° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaCapricorn 22°12′ (moves 0.37° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 11°04′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

George’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♆ Neptune8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus5 pts

    disposes Mercury, Mars; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars4 pts

    disposes Venus; 3 major aspects

Configurations in George’s chart

  • kite, the shape it makesKite · 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • 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°

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George’s cards

Computed from February 20, 1945. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Explorer

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

George’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q179572 (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 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. The full method: how it works.

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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.
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 was George F. Smoot's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What was George F. Smoot's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Libra at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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