Gregg L. Semenza
Gregg L. Semenza (born July 12, 1956, Flushing, United States), aged 70, is an American physician and university teacher, Nobel laureate in Medicine, author of many retracted papers. Semenza's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and Canada Gairdner International Award.
Gregg L. Semenza’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Fire Monkey, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Monkey, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Gregg
Gregg L. Semenza’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Pioneer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Gregg in the U.S.?
#12682
US rank in 2025
~36,624
Americans share it since 1881
1962
its peak year
In 1956, 1,438 American boys and 6 girls were registered Gregg — 195th among boys and 5,523rd among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Gregg’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
22
Expression · building at scale
7
Soul Urge · understanding
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on G (7) and closes on G (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Gregg’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sky blue · Pearl · Scarlet
The record
What sets Gregg apart
Pablo Neruda (1904) and Vinícius Júnior (2000) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Gregg, according to the stars
Core essence
Gregg feels the room before entering it. The core of Gregg 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 Gregg, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Gregg 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 Gregg needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Gregg wants to be loved
Gregg wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Gregg like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Gregg creates
How Gregg makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Gregg 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: Gregg 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 4 is the builder. Gregg is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Gregg slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Gregg's birth date. Working below.
Where Gregg sits
Six lines
Gregg’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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
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Dedicate a star to Gregg L. Semenza
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Flushing 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 Flushing that night
Computed for 40.77°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alphecca stood nearest the zenith over Flushing at 9 p.m. that evening, 76.1° above the horizon in Corona Borealis.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 85 catalog stars above the horizon.
Flushing sits at 40.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Flushing at all: they sit past the −49.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 31% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 5° down.
How unusual Gregg's chart is
Chart pattern score
38 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Venus · Venus retrograde · 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 SunHard shell, soft centre.
Gregg L. Semenza's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 12, 1956, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Fire Monkey
Fire MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
Gregg L. Semenza was born on July 12, 1956, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Builds it properly or not at all.
Gregg L. Semenza's birth date, July 12, 1956, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Gregg’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Gregg L. Semenza's date-only chart is Saturn square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Gregg L. Semenza combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Pioneer.
Gregg’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 29° Virgo 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
stableSaturnsquarePluto0.6° to 0.7° orb
Gregg’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.6° orb
Gregg’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSuntrineMars1.6° to 2.2° orb
Gregg’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
stableJupitersextileNeptune3.2° to 3.4° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto3.8° to 3.9° orb
stableVenussquareMars4.0° to 4.4° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune4.2° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn4.4° to 4.6° orb
stableVenussextilePluto4.5° to 4.6° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune5.1° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus5.4° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn5.7° to 6.7° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Gregg’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 10°06′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 17°43′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 3°59′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 24°58′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 24°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 1.9°
- Eros opposition Uranus 2.2°
- Ceres square Sun 2.5°
- Hygiea square Neptune 2.7°
Gregg’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury
2. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Gregg’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 sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.3°
- Mercury semi-square Pluto 0.3°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 0.9°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 1.2°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.5°
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Gregg’s cards
Computed from July 12, 1956. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Gilded PioneerWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
4 · Architect☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Gregg’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1545025 (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 US Embassy Sweden, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Gregg L. Semenza.
Quick answers about Gregg L. Semenza’s chart
- How old is Gregg L. Semenza?
- Gregg L. Semenza is 70 years old, born July 12, 1956 in Flushing, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Gregg L. Semenza?
- Gregg L. Semenza is a Cancer: born July 12, 1956, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Gregg L. Semenza's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 12, 1956 birth.
- What is Gregg L. Semenza's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What is Gregg L. Semenza's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Gregg L. Semenza's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Gregg L. Semenza's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury). Neptune is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
