Har Gobind Khorana
Har Gobind Khorana (born January 9, 1922, Raipur, Pakistan; died 2011), was an Indian-American molecular biologist. Khorana's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Dannie Heineman Prize and Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize.
Har Gobind Khorana’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rooster, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Rooster, with 
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Har Gobind Khorana’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Diplomat
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
Har’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia
Crimson · Ivory · Silver
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Har, according to the stars
Core essence
Har is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Har is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Har is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Har needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Har wants to be loved
Har wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Har you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Har creates
How Har 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. Har 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: Har is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Har is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Har runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Har's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Har sits
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You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Har Gobind Khorana at a glance
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunDry wit, dead serious.
Har Gobind Khorana's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 9, 1922, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Metal Rooster
Metal RoosterCandid to a fault.
Har Gobind Khorana was born on January 9, 1922, which falls in a Metal Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Care is the whole job.
Har Gobind Khorana's birth date, January 9, 1922, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Har’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Har Gobind Khorana's date-only chart is Sun square Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Har Gobind Khorana combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Diplomat.
Har’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Har Gobind Khorana, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 14° to 27° Taurus 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.
stableSunsquareJupiter0.0° to 0.8° orb
Har’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableMarstrinePluto0.5° to 1.1° orb
Har’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarstrineUranus0.8° to 1.3° orb
Har’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenusoppositionPluto1.3° to 2.6° orb
Har’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSaturnsquarePluto1.3° orb
Har’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranustrinePluto1.9° orb
Har’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussextileMars2.5° to 3.1° orb
Har’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableVenussquareSaturn2.6° to 3.9° orb
Har’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersextileNeptune2.6° to 2.7° orb
Har’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussextileUranus3.2° to 4.5° orb
Har’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableSunconjunctionVenus7.3° to 7.6° orb
Har’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.0° to 10.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Har’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.
⚷ ChironAries 9°38′ (moves 0.02° 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: Har may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresLibra 29°43′ (moves 0.30° 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. Har is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosAries 5°56′ (moves 0.67° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Har is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaScorpio 23°43′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Har carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 0°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Har is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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.
- Chiron square Pluto 0.8°
- Chiron square Venus 1.2°
- Eros opposition Saturn 1.6°
- Chiron opposition Saturn 2.1°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 2.2°
- Eros square Pluto 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°).
Har’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. ♄ Saturn8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus7 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 5 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Har is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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 Har’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 Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
Kite · Mars, Uranus, Pluto, VenusA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
T-square onto Saturn · Venus, Pluto, 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.
- Mars semi-sextile Saturn 0.4°
- Saturn quincunx Uranus 0.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Har Gobind Khorana, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Har’s cards
Every card is computed from January 9, 1922, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Har Gobind Khorana, 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
Har’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q107462, 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 Har Gobind Khorana 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 Har Gobind Khorana’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Har Gobind Khorana?
- Har Gobind Khorana was a Capricorn: born January 9, 1922, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rooster.
- What was Har Gobind Khorana's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 9, 1922 birth.
- What time was Har Gobind Khorana 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 Har Gobind Khorana's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the January 9, 1922 birth date.
- What was Har Gobind Khorana's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 9, 1922 birth date.
- Where was Har Gobind Khorana's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Har Gobind Khorana's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
