George Whipple
George Whipple (born August 28, 1878, Ashland, United States; died 1976), was an American physician and biomedical researcher. Whipple's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal and George M. Kober Medal.
George Whipple’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Earth Tiger, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Tiger, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with George
George Whipple’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 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, 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
No US figure exists for 1878 — the SSA series begins 2 years later. George opened it at 5th among boys and 312th among girls, 5,126 American boys and 26 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What George’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
3
Soul Urge · being heard
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on G (7) and closes on E (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 7: movement against analysis.
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
6 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Lilac · Gold
The record
What sets George apart
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine came in 1934, when George Whipple was 56.
Study took George Whipple to Johns Hopkins University and Phillips Academy.
George Whipple lies at Mount Hope Cemetery.
Wikipedia files George Whipple under People from Ashland, New Hampshire, Burials at Mount Hope Cemetery (Rochester) and American pathologists.
Jack Black (1969) and Shania Twain (1965) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Johns Hopkins University, Phillips Academy and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1934), George M. Kober Medal (1939) and Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal (1962)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Buried at
- Mount Hope Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 53
What the chart says
George, according to the stars
Core essence
George notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of George is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, George is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What George needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How George wants to be loved
George wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore George openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
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 bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. George is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means George channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Whipple
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Ashland 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 Ashland that night
Computed for 43.70°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Ashland at 9 p.m. that evening: Fawaris of Cygnus, within 1.3° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 88 catalog stars were up in all.
Ashland sits at 43.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −46.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Ashland on any night.
Sun 24° below the horizon, Moon down and 1% lit at new moon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Ashland, United States
The death is recorded at Rochester, Monroe County in 1976.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for George Whipple: 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
82 / 100 · Rare
4-planet stellium in Virgo · Yod onto Uranus · Grand trine
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 →Virgo Sun
Virgo SunHelps by correcting.
George Whipple's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 28, 1878, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Earth Tiger
Earth TigerLeads by moving.
George Whipple was born on August 28, 1878, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Care is the whole job.
George Whipple's birth date, August 28, 1878, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in George’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in George Whipple's date-only chart is Venus square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Uranus, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- George Whipple 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 4° to 19° Virgo 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
stableVenussquareNeptune0.0° to 1.0° orb
George’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMoonconjunctionMars0.1° to 7.7° orb
George’s feelings and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurytrinePluto0.6° to 0.7° orb
George’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupitertrinePluto1.9° to 2.0° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune2.0° to 2.7° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter2.6° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn2.9° orb
stableUranussquarePluto3.7° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune4.1° to 5.0° orb
stableSunconjunctionUranus4.6° to 5.5° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto4.8° to 4.9° orb
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn5.5° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth8 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air or Water signs.
George’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 8°33′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 12°49′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 25°29′ (moves 0.71° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 16°11′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 5°57′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Mars 0.7°
- Chiron conjunction Neptune 1.2°
- Chiron square Venus 1.6°
- Ceres square Venus 2.7°
- Eros square Jupiter 2.9°
George’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Uranus; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
Configurations in George’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, Mars, UranusThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Kite · Mercury, Jupiter, Pluto, SaturnA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
Yod onto Uranus · Jupiter, Saturn, UranusTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-square Venus 0.7°
- Sun biquintile Jupiter 0.8°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.1°
- Saturn quincunx Uranus 1.1°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.3°
- Jupiter quincunx Uranus 1.8°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.9°
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- Robert WardAmerican composer
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From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
George’s cards
Computed from August 28, 1878. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
6 · Guardian☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
George’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q273238 (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 The Nobel Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same George Whipple 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 Whipple.
Quick answers about George Whipple’s chart
- What zodiac sign was George Whipple?
- George Whipple was a Virgo: born August 28, 1878, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was George Whipple's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 28, 1878 birth.
- What was George Whipple's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was George Whipple's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was George Whipple's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was George Whipple's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
