Gerald Edelman
Gerald Edelman (born July 1, 1929, Queens, United States; died 2014), was an American biologist. Edelman's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry and Ariëns Kappers Medal.
Gerald Edelman’s zodiac sign was Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Snake, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Snake, with 
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Gerald Edelman’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Visionary
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Gerald in the U.S.?
#1206
US rank in 2025
~451,351
Americans share it since 1880
1942
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Gerald’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
11 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Citrine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌻 Zinnia
Sky blue · Pearl · Terracotta
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Gerald, according to the stars
Core essence
Gerald feels the room before entering it. The core of Gerald is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Gerald, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Gerald wants to be loved
Gerald wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Gerald is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Gerald creates
How Gerald makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Gerald creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Gerald is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Gerald is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Gerald fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Gerald's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Gerald sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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.
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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunFeeds you before you ask.
Gerald Edelman's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 1, 1929, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Earth Snake
Earth SnakeCalm surface, fast strike.
Gerald Edelman was born on July 1, 1929, which falls in a Earth Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 11
Life Path 11Intuition before evidence.
Gerald Edelman's birth date, July 1, 1929, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
What stands out in Gerald’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Gerald Edelman's date-only chart is Mars conjunction Neptune, with an orb of about 1°.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs.
- Gerald Edelman combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Visionary.
Gerald’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Gerald Edelman, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 21° to 4° Aries or Taurus 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.
stableMoontrineMars0.1° to 6.9° orb
Gerald’s feelings flow straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune0.7° to 1.2° orb
Gerald’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunsquareUranus1.5° to 2.5° orb
Gerald’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMarstrineSaturn1.7° to 2.4° orb
Gerald’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableSaturntrineNeptune3.0° to 3.1° orb
Gerald’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussquareMars4.5° to 4.9° orb
Gerald’s affections grind against their drive.
stableJupitersquareNeptune4.8° to 5.0° orb
Gerald’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussquareNeptune5.2° to 6.1° orb
Gerald’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarssquareJupiter5.7° to 6.1° orb
Gerald’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableUranussquarePluto6.4° orb
Gerald’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.0° to 8.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 8.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Gerald’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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 13°22′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Gerald building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresTaurus 24°01′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Gerald is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosLeo 28°52′ (moves 0.88° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Gerald loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ HygieaAries 12°33′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Gerald feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 4°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Gerald is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
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.
- Ceres conjunction Venus 0.4°
- Eros conjunction Mars 0.5°
- Eros conjunction Neptune 0.5°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 1.3°
- Eros trine Saturn 2.6°
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°).
Gerald’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. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ♂ Mars6 pts
disposes Uranus; 5 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; 2 major aspects
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Gerald is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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 Gerald’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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 semi-sextile Pluto 0.4°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.6°
- Mercury quintile Neptune 0.7°
- Jupiter semi-square Pluto 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Gerald Edelman, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Gerald’s cards
Every card is computed from July 1, 1929, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Gerald Edelman, 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
Gerald’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q271766, 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 Bernard Gotfryd, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Gerald Edelman at Wikipedia.
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 Gerald Edelman’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Gerald Edelman?
- Gerald Edelman was a Cancer: born July 1, 1929, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Snake.
- What was Gerald Edelman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 1, 1929 birth.
- What time was Gerald Edelman 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 Gerald Edelman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the July 1, 1929 birth date.
- What was Gerald Edelman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 1, 1929 birth date.
- Where was Gerald Edelman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Gerald Edelman's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Mars is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
