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, Chinese zodiac was Metal Rooster, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Rooster, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Har
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.
What Har’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
6
Soul Urge · being needed
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on H (8) and closes on R (9). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 9: drive against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Har’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Har apart
Catherine, Princess of Wales (1982) and Jimmy Page (1944) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Har sits
Six lines
Har’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 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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Har Gobind Khorana
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Raipur 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 Raipur that night
Computed for 30.85°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Raipur at 9 p.m. that evening: Atik of Perseus, within 1.3° of the exact zenith.
Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 30.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Raipur at all: they sit past the −59.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 81% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 39° down.
How unusual Har's chart is
Chart pattern score
60 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Capricorn · Grand trine · T-square onto Saturn
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 →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.
What Capricorn means →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.
What the Rooster means →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.
What Life Path 6 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 27° Taurus 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
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
stableSaturnsquarePluto1.3° orb
stableUranustrinePluto1.9° orb
stableVenussextileMars2.5° to 3.1° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn2.6° to 3.9° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune2.6° to 2.7° orb
stableVenussextileUranus3.2° to 4.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus7.3° to 7.6° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 9°38′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 29°43′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 5°56′ (moves 0.67° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 23°43′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 0°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Har’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Har’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars semi-sextile Saturn 0.4°
- Saturn quincunx Uranus 0.6°
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Har’s cards
Computed from January 9, 1922. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Radiant DiplomatWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
6 · Guardian♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Har’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q107462 (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 Har Gobind Khorana.
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.
- 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 was Har Gobind Khorana's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Har Gobind Khorana's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
