George Wald
George Wald (born November 18, 1906, New York City, United States; died 1997), was an American biologist, biochemist, physiologist and Nobel laureate. Wald's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and Frederic Ives Medal.
George Wald’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Fire Horse, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Horse, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with George
George Wald’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Lightkeeper
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, 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
George ranked 4th among boys and 668th among girls in 1906, the year of this birth, with 4,201 American boys and 30 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.
7
Expression · depth and research
8
Soul Urge · achievement
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
9 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Gold · Crimson · Scarlet
The record
What sets George apart
Margaret Atwood (1939) and Chloë Sevigny (1974) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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.
How George wants to be loved
George wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with George and watch them fall for you again.
How George creates
How George makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. George creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: George is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. George is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. George fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 Wald
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Mirach of Andromeda, within 6.1° of the exact zenith.
Of the 101 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from New York City on any night.
The Moon, 11% lit at waxing crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 49° below the horizon.
How unusual George's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
1 unaspected planet · T-square onto Mars · Venus retrograde
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 Wald at a glance
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunAll in or nowhere near.
George Wald's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 18, 1906, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Fire Horse
Fire HorseRuns free, catches feelings anyway.
George Wald was born on November 18, 1906, which falls in a Fire Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Carries the whole room's weight.
George Wald's birth date, November 18, 1906, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in George’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in George Wald's date-only chart is Mars square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto.
- George Wald combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Lightkeeper.
George’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 6° 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
stableMarssquareNeptune0.0° to 0.5° orb
George’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussextileMars0.4° to 1.4° orb
George’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableMarssquareJupiter1.4° to 2.1° orb
George’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus1.9° to 2.5° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune1.9° to 2.0° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn2.1° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus2.1° orb
stableMercurysextileMars2.9° to 3.3° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune4.0° orb
stableJupiteroppositionUranus4.1° to 4.3° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn4.6° to 4.9° orb
stableMarssquareUranus5.7° to 6.3° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed1 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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 8°03′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 17°20′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 1°40′ (moves 0.68° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 14°25′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 14°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Venus 1.2°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 1.3°
- Ceres opposition Mercury 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 2.1°
- Hygiea trine Mars 2.2°
George’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars6.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 5 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
Configurations in George’s chart
T-square onto Mars · Jupiter, Uranus, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Mars · Uranus, Neptune, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.0°
- Venus quincunx Neptune 0.7°
- Sun semi-square Mars 1.7°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.9°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 2.2°
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Born in Horse years
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Also born on November 18
- Margaret Atwood1939
- Chloë Sevigny1974
- Megyn Kelly1970
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- Allyson Felix1985
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- Ray CharlesAmerican singer, pianist and songwriter
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From the journal: What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated · Is astrology real or fake?
George’s cards
Computed from November 18, 1906. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Radiant LightkeeperWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
9 · Healer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
George’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q295724 (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 Molendijk, Bart / Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same George Wald at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by George Wald.
Quick answers about George Wald’s chart
- What zodiac sign was George Wald?
- George Wald was a Scorpio: born November 18, 1906, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was George Wald's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 18, 1906 birth.
- What was George Wald's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was George Wald's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was George Wald's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was George Wald's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (6.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 5 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
