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, Chinese zodiac was Earth Snake, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Snake, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Gerald
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
Of the names registered in 1929, Gerald came 33rd among boys and 1,048th among girls, carried by 5,965 American boys and 49 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Gerald’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
2
Expression · connecting people
8
Soul Urge · achievement
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on G (7) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Gerald’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
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 1929, 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 Gerald apart
Gerald Edelman took the Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry in 1965, at 36.
Ursinus College and Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania shaped the training.
Cause of death is recorded as prostate cancer.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Gerald Edelman: Biologists from New York (state), American embryologists and Jewish neuroscientists.
Diana, Princess of Wales (1961) and Pamela Anderson (1967) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Ursinus College, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and The Rockefeller University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1972), honorary doctorate from the University of Paris-VII (1989) and honorary doctor of the University of Miami (1995)
- Cause of death
- prostate cancer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 56
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. Working below.
Where Gerald sits
Six lines
Gerald’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Gerald Edelman
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Queens 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 Queens that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Izar stood nearest the zenith over Queens at 9 p.m. that evening, 76.7° above the horizon in Boötes.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 83 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 30% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 5° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Queens, United States
The death is recorded at La Jolla, San Diego in 2014.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Gerald Edelman: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Gerald's chart is
Chart pattern score
20 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet · 1 planet at a critical degree
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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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.
What Cancer means →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.
What the Snake means →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.
What Life Path 11 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 4° Aries or Taurus 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
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
stableSaturntrineNeptune3.0° to 3.1° orb
stableVenussquareMars4.5° to 4.9° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune4.8° to 5.0° orb
stableVenussquareNeptune5.2° to 6.1° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter5.7° to 6.1° orb
stableUranussquarePluto6.4° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 13°22′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 24°01′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 28°52′ (moves 0.88° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 12°33′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 4°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Gerald’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Gerald’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 semi-sextile Pluto 0.4°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.6°
- Mercury quintile Neptune 0.7°
- Jupiter semi-square Pluto 1.6°
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Born in Snake years
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Also born on July 1
- Diana, Princess of Wales1961
- Pamela Anderson1967
- Liv Tyler1977
- Carl Lewis1961
- Daniel Ricciardo1989
- Tate McRae2003
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Jody WilliamsAmerican teacher and aid worker
- Adolf WindausGerman chemist
- Kenzaburō ŌeJapanese writer and Nobel Laureate
Other Cancer Snake charts
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- Natalia GrossmanAmerican sport climber
- Connie NielsenDanish actress (born 1965)
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Other Radiant Visionarys
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- NeNe LeakesAmerican television personality, actress, presenter, businesswoman, author, and fashion designer
- GronkhGerman YouTuber and video game designer
- Mike VolpiItalian venture capitalist
Famous people with Life Path 11
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- Robert J. Perabusinessperson
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Gerald’s cards
Computed from July 1, 1929. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Radiant VisionaryWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
11 · Visionary☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Gerald’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q271766 (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 Bernard Gotfryd, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Gerald Edelman at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Gerald Edelman.
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.
- 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 was Gerald Edelman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was Gerald Edelman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
