
Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel (born July 20, 1822, Hynčice, Czech Republic; died 1884), was a Moravian scientist and Augustinian friar. Mendel's honours include Commander's Cross of the Order of Franz Joseph.
Gregor Mendel’s zodiac sign was Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Horse, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
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Gregor Mendel’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Pioneer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Gregor in the U.S.?
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US rank in 2025
~1,213
Americans share it since 1880
1962
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Gregor’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
4 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🪷 Lotus
Sky blue · Pearl · Soft pink
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Gregor, according to the stars
Core essence
Gregor feels the room before entering it. The core of Gregor 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 Gregor, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Gregor needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Gregor needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Gregor wants to be loved
Gregor 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 Gregor like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Gregor creates
How Gregor makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Gregor creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Gregor is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Gregor 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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Gregor fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Gregor's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Cancer Sun
Feeds you before you ask.
Gregor Mendel's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 20, 1822, 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.
Water Horse
Can't stand still. Won't.
Gregor Mendel was born on July 20, 1822, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 4
Structure is comfort.
Gregor Mendel's birth date, July 20, 1822, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
What stands out in Gregor’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Gregor Mendel's date-only chart is Mars square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Gregor Mendel combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Pioneer.
Gregor’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Gregor Mendel, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 14° to 28° Leo 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.
stableMarssquareNeptune0.3° to 0.9° orb
Gregor’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersextilePluto0.8° to 1.0° orb
Gregor’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableUranusconjunctionNeptune1.3° orb
Gregor’s need for freedom and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarssquareUranus1.5° to 2.1° orb
Gregor’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarsoppositionPluto1.5° to 2.0° orb
Gregor’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableNeptunesquarePluto2.3° orb
Gregor’s imagination grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunsextileJupiter2.5° to 3.3° orb
Gregor’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableMarstrineJupiter2.5° to 2.9° orb
Gregor’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSuntrinePluto3.3° to 4.3° orb
Gregor’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranussquarePluto3.6° orb
Gregor’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturntrineUranus4.6° to 4.7° orb
Gregor’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableSaturntrineNeptune5.9° to 6.0° orb
Gregor’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Gregor’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 10°17′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Gregor may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 5°12′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Gregor is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosSagittarius 6°46′ (moves 0.02° 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 Gregor attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 1°20′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Gregor is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 2°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Gregor leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 0.3°
- Hygiea square Pluto 0.4°
- Ceres sextile Uranus 0.7°
- Hygiea square Mars 1.3°
- Hygiea conjunction Neptune 1.9°
- Ceres sextile Neptune 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Jupiter 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°).
Gregor’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. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
5 major aspects
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Gregor 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 Gregor’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.
T-square onto Uranus · Mars, Pluto, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
T-square onto Neptune · Mars, Pluto, NeptuneAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Mars biquintile Saturn 0.5°
- Jupiter biquintile Uranus 1.5°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Gregor Mendel, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Gregor’s cards
Every card is computed from July 20, 1822, 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 Wood.
Year
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Gregor Mendel, 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
Gregor’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q37970, 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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Gregor Mendel 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 Gregor Mendel.
Quick answers about Gregor Mendel’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Gregor Mendel?
- Gregor Mendel was a Cancer: born July 20, 1822, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Horse.
- What was Gregor Mendel's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 20, 1822 birth.
- What time was Gregor Mendel 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 Gregor Mendel's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the July 20, 1822 birth date.
- What was Gregor Mendel's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 20, 1822 birth date.
- Where was Gregor Mendel's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Gregor Mendel's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury). Mars is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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