Gerty Cori
Gerty Cori (born August 15, 1896, Prague, Czech Republic; died 1957), was an Austro-Hungarian-American biochemist. Cori's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, National Women's Hall of Fame and Women in Technology Hall of Fame.
Gerty Cori’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Fire Monkey, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Monkey, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Gerty
Gerty Cori’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Guardian
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
What Gerty’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
11
Soul Urge · insight
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on G (7) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Gerty’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
2 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌺 Poppy
Coral · Gold · Flame orange
The record
What sets Gerty apart
Ben Affleck (1972) and Abiy Ahmed (1976) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Gerty, according to the stars
Core essence
Gerty is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Gerty is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Gerty feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Gerty needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Gerty wants to be loved
Gerty wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Gerty and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Gerty creates
How Gerty makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Gerty creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Gerty 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Gerty is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Gerty is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Gerty's birth date. Working below.
Where Gerty sits
Six lines
Gerty’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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 Gerty Cori
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Prague 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 Prague that night
Computed for 50.09°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Prague was Eltanin, in Draco, 83.2° up.
Of the 87 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
At 50.1°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Prague at all: they sit past the −39.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 50% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 14° below the horizon.
How unusual Gerty's chart is
Chart pattern score
37 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · 1 planet at a critical degree · No retrogrades at all
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 →Gerty Cori at a glance
Leo Sun
Leo SunPride is the engine.
Gerty Cori's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 15, 1896, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Fire Monkey
Fire MonkeyInventive, restless, funny.
Gerty Cori was born on August 15, 1896, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 2
Life Path 2Listens first, then decides.
Gerty Cori's birth date, August 15, 1896, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in Gerty’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Gerty Cori's date-only chart is Jupiter square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Gerty Cori combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Guardian.
Gerty’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 24° Scorpio depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableJupitersquareUranus0.1° to 0.3° orb
Gerty’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersextileNeptune0.7° to 0.9° orb
Gerty’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionJupiter1.9° to 2.7° orb
Gerty’s core identity and growth act as one.
stableSunsquareUranus2.0° to 3.0° orb
stableSunsextileNeptune2.7° to 3.6° orb
stableVenussquareMars3.3° to 4.0° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.7° to 4.3° orb
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto6.3° orb
stableSunsquareMars6.4° to 6.7° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus7.4° orb
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.0° to 12.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 10.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal0 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Gerty’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLibra 23°37′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 6°09′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 20°08′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 8°32′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 16°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros opposition Neptune 0.2°
- Chiron sextile Sun 0.6°
- Eros trine Jupiter 0.6°
- Hygiea trine Mercury 1.3°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 2.9°
- Eros trine Sun 2.9°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 2.9°
Gerty’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect
3. ♀ Venus3 pts
disposes Mars; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Gerty’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.
- Saturn quincunx Pluto 0.4°
- Saturn biquintile Neptune 0.7°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 0.7°
- Mercury quintile Uranus 1.3°
- Venus quintile Neptune 1.3°
Gerty’s family here
One relative of Gerty Cori also has a chart on AsterNym.
More people like Gerty
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Born in Czech Republic
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- Saul FriedländerIsraeli historian and Holocaust survivor (born 1932)
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- Markéta VondroušováCzech tennis player
- Jaroslav SeifertCzechoslovak poet, Nobel prize laureate
More charts like Gerty’s
Fellow Leo suns
- Sam WorthingtonAustralian actor
- Steve CarellAmerican actor and comedian
- Vera RubinAmerican astronomer and physicist
Born in Monkey years
- Beverley MitchellAmerican actress
- Daniel ModerAmerican cinematographer
- Chrissy MetzAmerican actress
Also born on August 15
- Ben Affleck1972
- Abiy Ahmed1976
- Melinda Gates1964
- Joe Jonas1989
- Chief Keef1995
- Jennifer Lawrence1990
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- John MellencampAmerican singer-songwriter
- Jillian MichaelsAmerican personal trainer, reality show personality, actress, talk show host and entrepreneur
- Jennifer MeyerAmerican jewellery designer
Other Leo Monkey charts
- Eric BanaAustralian actor
- Terry CrewsAmerican actor, television host, and American football player
- Cara DelevingneEnglish model and actor
- Kim CattrallBritish–Canadian actress
Other Gilded Guardians
- Brigitte HelmGerman actress
- Claude RainsBritish actor
- John CazaleAmerican actor
- Ulrich MatthesGerman actor
Famous people with Life Path 2
- Patricia McBrideAmerican ballet dancer
- Arthur MitchellAmerican dancer and choreographer, co-founder of Dance Theatre of Harlem
- Daichi KamadaJapanese association football player
From the journal: Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs · Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection
Gerty’s cards
Computed from August 15, 1896. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Gilded GuardianWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
2 · Diplomat☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Gerty’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q204733 (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 National Library of Medicine, Images from the History of Medicine, B05353, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Gerty Cori at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Gerty Cori.
Quick answers about Gerty Cori’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Gerty Cori?
- Gerty Cori was a Leo: born August 15, 1896, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Gerty Cori's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 15, 1896 birth.
- What was Gerty Cori's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What was Gerty Cori's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Gerty Cori's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Gerty Cori's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
