George Porter
George Porter (born December 6, 1920, Stainforth, United Kingdom; died 2002), was a British chemist. Porter served as President of the Royal Society and member of the House of Lords. Porter's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Order of Merit and Knight Bachelor.
George Porter’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Metal Monkey, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Monkey, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with George
George Porter’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Healer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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 6th among boys and 556th among girls in 1920, the year of this birth, with 26,891 American boys and 166 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.
5
Expression · versatility
9
Soul Urge · meaning
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on G (7) and closes on E (5).
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
3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Magnolia
Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1920, 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 Porter took the Faraday Lectureship Prize in 1950, at 30.
Trinity Academy and Emmanuel College shaped the training.
George Porter was born to Alice Ann Roebuck and John Smith Porter, married Stella Jean Brooke and raised 2 children.
Wikipedia's editors put George Porter under Chemists of the University of Sheffield, Directors of the Royal Institution and Crossbench life peers.
The same date carries Dave Brubeck. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Trinity Academy, Emmanuel College and University of Leeds
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1967), Copley Medal (1992) and Kalinga Prize (1976)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 61
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 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 are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. George creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: George is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. George is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
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 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 George Porter
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Stainforth 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 Stainforth that night
Computed for 53.60°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Miram stood nearest the zenith over Stainforth at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.9° above the horizon in Perseus.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 102 catalog stars were up in all.
At 53.6°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Stainforth at all: they sit past the −36.4° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 12% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 44° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Stainforth, United Kingdom
The death is recorded at Canterbury in 2002.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for George Porter: 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.
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Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunNeeds a horizon, any horizon.
George Porter's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 6, 1920, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Metal Monkey
Metal MonkeyTurns problems into games.
George Porter was born on December 6, 1920, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Charm with a deadline problem.
George Porter's birth date, December 6, 1920, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in George’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in George Porter's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- George Porter combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Healer.
George’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 6° Libra or Scorpio 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
stableSuntrineNeptune0.0° to 1.0° orb
George’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextileSaturn0.0° to 0.6° orb
George’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableVenustrineSaturn0.7° to 1.8° orb
George’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextileVenus1.2° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter3.1° to 4.0° orb
stableVenustrineJupiter4.6° to 5.7° orb
stableUranustrinePluto6.3° orb
stableMarsoppositionNeptune6.4° to 7.2° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn6.4° orb
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.1° to 8.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.9° to 12.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 1.6° to 12.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 6°02′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Cancer 7°00′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 4°58′ (moves 0.69° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 3°60′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 16°01′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Mars 0.8°
- Ceres conjunction Pluto 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 1.6°
- Eros sextile Mars 1.9°
- Hygiea opposition Uranus 2.0°
- Chiron square Pluto 2.3°
- Eros square Uranus 2.9°
George’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
disposes Venus; 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.
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.7°
- Mercury quintile Mars 0.9°
- Mars quincunx Pluto 1.5°
Born the same day as George
Dave Brubeck was born on December 6, 1920 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. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. At 53.6°N, Stainforth keeps Vega, Capella and Deneb above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated
George’s cards
Computed from December 6, 1920. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast HealerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
3 · Storyteller♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
George’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q106762 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same George Porter at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by George Porter.
Quick answers about George Porter’s chart
- What zodiac sign was George Porter?
- George Porter was a Sagittarius: born December 6, 1920, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What was George Porter's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 6, 1920 birth.
- What was George Porter's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was George Porter's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was George Porter's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was George Porter's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
