H. Robert Horvitz
H. Robert Horvitz (born May 8, 1947, Chicago, United States), aged 79, is an American biologist. Horvitz's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Novartis-Drew Award and Harvard Centennial Medal.
H. Robert Horvitz’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Fire Pig, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Pig, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with H. Robert Horvitz
H. Robert Horvitz’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Lightkeeper
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
What H. Robert Horvitz’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
8
Soul Urge · achievement
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on H (8) and closes on H (8). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
H. Robert Horvitz’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Hibiscus
Ivory · Blush · Scarlet
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 1947, 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 H. Robert Horvitz apart
H. Robert Horvitz took the NAS Award in Molecular Biology in 1988, at 41.
The classrooms behind this chart: Niles East High School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science.
H. Robert Horvitz was married Martha Constantine-Paton.
Wikipedia's editors put H. Robert Horvitz under Nematologists, Scientists from Chicago and Caenorhabditis elegans.
The same date carries Ron Miller. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Niles East High School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2002), March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology (2000) and Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (2000)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 49
What the chart says
H. Robert Horvitz, according to the stars
Core essence
H. Robert Horvitz is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of H. Robert Horvitz is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How H. Robert Horvitz wants to be loved
H. Robert Horvitz wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How H. Robert Horvitz creates
How H. Robert Horvitz 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. H. Robert Horvitz 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: H. Robert Horvitz is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. H. Robert Horvitz is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means H. Robert Horvitz gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from H. Robert Horvitz's birth date. Working below.
Where H. Robert Horvitz sits
Six lines
H. Robert Horvitz’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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to H. Robert Horvitz
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chicago 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 Chicago that night
Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Chicago was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 79.9° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 41.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Chicago at all: they sit past the −48.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 86% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 11° down.
How unusual H.'s chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →H. Robert Horvitz at a glance
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunBuilt for the long haul.
H. Robert Horvitz's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 8, 1947, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Fire Pig
Fire PigGives more than it gets.
H. Robert Horvitz was born on May 8, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Asks the better question.
H. Robert Horvitz's birth date, May 8, 1947, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in H. Robert Horvitz’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in H. Robert Horvitz's date-only chart is Mars sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs.
- H. Robert Horvitz combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Lightkeeper.
H. Robert Horvitz’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 2° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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
stableMarssextileUranus0.4° to 1.1° orb
H. Robert Horvitz’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysquarePluto1.1° to 3.2° orb
H. Robert Horvitz’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.5° to 2.6° orb
H. Robert Horvitz’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussextileUranus3.0° to 4.1° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars4.1° to 4.5° orb
stableVenustrinePluto4.7° to 5.9° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn4.8° to 6.8° orb
stableSunoppositionJupiter5.6° to 6.7° orb
stableSunsquarePluto5.7° to 6.7° orb
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.4° to 11.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 0.8° to 12.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 4.9° to 15.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
H. Robert Horvitz’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Scorpio 4°36′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 10°45′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 23°55′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 22°56′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 10°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Pluto 0.3°
- Hygiea opposition Jupiter 0.5°
- Chiron square Saturn 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 2.1°
- Ceres opposition Neptune 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 2.5°
H. Robert Horvitz’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
in its own sign, Aries; disposes Venus; 2 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
Configurations in H. Robert Horvitz’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.
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 0.1°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 0.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.0°
- Venus biquintile Jupiter 1.1°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 1.8°
Born the same day as H. Robert Horvitz
Ron Miller was born on May 8, 1947 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Chicago, at 41.9°N, nothing below −48.1° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
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H. Robert Horvitz’s cards
Computed from May 8, 1947. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Radiant LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
7 · Seeker♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
H. Robert Horvitz’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q295659 (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.
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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 H. Robert Horvitz.
Quick answers about H. Robert Horvitz’s chart
- How old is H. Robert Horvitz?
- H. Robert Horvitz is 79 years old, born May 8, 1947 in Chicago, United States.
- What zodiac sign is H. Robert Horvitz?
- H. Robert Horvitz is a Taurus: born May 8, 1947, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is H. Robert Horvitz's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 8, 1947 birth.
- What is H. Robert Horvitz's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is H. Robert Horvitz's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is H. Robert Horvitz's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is H. Robert Horvitz's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
