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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Monkey, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Monkey, with 
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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.
Gerty’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Gerty sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
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. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
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. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.
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
No documented birth time exists for Gerty Cori, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 10° to 24° Scorpio 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.
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
Gerty’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableSunsextileNeptune2.7° to 3.6° orb
Gerty’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussquareMars3.3° to 4.0° orb
Gerty’s affections grind against their drive.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.7° to 4.3° orb
Gerty’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto6.3° orb
Gerty’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsquareMars6.4° to 6.7° orb
Gerty’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus7.4° orb
Gerty’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
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
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.
⚷ ChironLibra 23°37′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Libra is read as a wound around fairness and partnership. Gerty is read as someone who learnt what a fair deal looks like by living through unfair ones.
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 6°09′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Gerty looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosSagittarius 20°08′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Gerty attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 8°32′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Gerty is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 16°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Gerty carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on 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.
- 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°
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°).
Gerty’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. ☉ 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
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Gerty is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Gerty’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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Gerty Cori, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Gerty’s family here
One relative of Gerty Cori also has a chart on AsterNym.
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From the journal: Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs · Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection
Gerty’s cards
Every card is computed from August 15, 1896, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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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
No birth time is on public record for Gerty Cori, 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
Gerty’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q204733, 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 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. 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Monkey.
- 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 time was Gerty Cori 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 Gerty Cori's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the August 15, 1896 birth date.
- What was Gerty Cori's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 15, 1896 birth date.
- 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.
