Hamilton Smith
Hamilton Smith (born August 23, 1931, New York City, United States; died 2025), was an American microbiologist. Smith's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, honorary doctorate of the University of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria and Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research.
Hamilton Smith’s zodiac sign was Leo or Virgo (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Goat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Metal Goat, with 
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How common is the name Hamilton in the U.S.?
#3152
US rank in 2025
~6,517
Americans share it since 1880
2016
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Hamilton’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
—
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Peridot, Your planetary stone, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🤍 White Magnolia
Coral · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Hamilton, according to the stars
The vibe
Underneath, Hamilton is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Hamilton needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Hamilton wants to be loved
Hamilton wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Hamilton openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Hamilton creates
How Hamilton makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Hamilton 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: Hamilton is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Hamilton is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
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. Hamilton fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Hamilton's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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Leo or Virgo Sun
Hamilton Smith was born on a day when the Sun moved from Leo into Virgo. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Metal Goat
Metal GoatKind, and quietly tough.
Hamilton Smith was born on August 23, 1931, which falls in a Metal Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
Hamilton Smith's birth date, August 23, 1931, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Hamilton’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Hamilton Smith's date-only chart is Saturn square Uranus, with an orb of about 2°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Jupiter, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Earth emphasis, with four planets in each.
Hamilton’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Hamilton Smith, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 2° to 14° Capricorn 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.
stableSaturnsquareUranus1.7° orb
Hamilton’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMercurysextilePluto1.8° to 1.9° orb
Hamilton’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurytrineSaturn2.2° to 2.3° orb
Hamilton’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableUranussquarePluto2.4° orb
Hamilton’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssquareSaturn3.2° to 3.9° orb
Hamilton’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableSunconjunctionVenus4.1° to 4.4° orb
Hamilton’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSaturnoppositionPluto4.1° to 4.2° orb
Hamilton’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarsoppositionUranus4.9° to 5.6° orb
Hamilton’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune5.3° to 6.2° orb
Hamilton’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenustrineUranus5.6° to 6.9° orb
Hamilton’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 11.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 9.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Hamilton’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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 23°37′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Hamilton building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresLibra 25°10′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Hamilton is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosScorpio 16°45′ (moves 0.55° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Hamilton is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaCancer 29°38′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Hamilton is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 1°51′ (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 Hamilton 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.
- Ceres sextile Venus 0.2°
- Eros sextile Saturn 0.6°
- Chiron square Venus 1.7°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 2.2°
- Eros sextile Mercury 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°).
Hamilton’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. ☉ Sun9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn6 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Hamilton 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 Hamilton’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.
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Venus, JupiterThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
T-square onto Uranus · Saturn, Pluto, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Saturn · Mars, Uranus, SaturnAn 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.
- Mercury quincunx Uranus 0.6°
- Sun semi-square Mars 0.8°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.1°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Hamilton Smith, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Hamilton’s cards
Every card is computed from August 23, 1931, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Hamilton Smith, 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
Hamilton’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q108896, 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 Jane Gitschier, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Hamilton Smith 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.
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Quick answers about Hamilton Smith’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Hamilton Smith?
- Hamilton Smith was born on a day when the Sun moved from Leo into Virgo. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Goat.
- What was Hamilton Smith's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 23, 1931 birth.
- What time was Hamilton Smith 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 Hamilton Smith's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the August 23, 1931 birth date.
- What was Hamilton Smith's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 23, 1931 birth date.
- Where was Hamilton Smith's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Hamilton Smith's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
