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Harold E. Varmus

Harold E. Varmus (born December 18, 1939, Oceanside, United States), aged 86, is an American scientist. Varmus has served as Plan S Ambassador and director. Varmus's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, National Medal of Science and Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research.

Harold E. Varmus’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Harold E. Varmus’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Seeker

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Harold in the U.S.?

#993

US rank in 2025

~554,280

Americans share it since 1880

1924

its peak year

In 1939, 8,299 American boys and 25 girls were registered Harold — 23rd among boys and 1,526th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Harold’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

7

Soul Urge · understanding

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on H (8) and closes on D (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 4: drive against craft.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Harold’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 3 · 4 · 6

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Frost white · Rose-gold · Gold

The record

What sets Harold apart

Steven Spielberg (1946) and Brad Pitt (1963) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Harold, according to the stars

Core essence

Harold is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Harold is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

The vibe

Underneath, Harold is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Harold needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.

How Harold wants to be loved

Harold 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 Harold you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Harold creates

How Harold makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Harold creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Harold is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Harold 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: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Harold slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.

Computed from Harold's birth date. Working below.

Where Harold sits

Six lines

Harold’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Harold

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Harold

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Harold

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Harold

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Harold

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Harold

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Harold E. Varmus

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Oceanside on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Harold’s birth-night reference starAlgolblue-white · PerseusAlgol, in Perseus. A blue-white star, 87.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Algol →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 64.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Oceanside that night

Computed for 40.64°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Algol stood nearest the zenith over Oceanside at 9 p.m. that evening, 87.8° above the horizon in Perseus.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 107 catalog stars above the horizon.

Oceanside sits at 40.6°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Oceanside at all: they sit past the −49.4° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at first quarter, 52% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 50° down.

How unusual Harold's chart is

Chart pattern score

55 / 100 · Unusual

Grand trine · T-square onto Sun · No Air planets

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The quick version

Sagittarius Sun

Truth first, tact later.

Harold E. Varmus's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 18, 1939, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

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Earth Rabbit

Keeps the peace, keeps the plan.

Harold E. Varmus was born on December 18, 1939, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rabbit means →

Life Path 7

Solitary, curious, deep.

Harold E. Varmus's birth date, December 18, 1939, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Harold’s chart

Harold’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 29° Pisces depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.4° orbMars opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.4° orbSun flows with Saturn · Trine, 1.4° orbMoon faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1.4° orbSun grinds against Moon · Square, 1.8° orbMercury flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.1° orbMoon opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 2.3° orbVenus grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.7° orbSun in Sagittarius · 25°53′☉25°Moon in Pisces · 24°03′☽24°Mercury in Sagittarius · 4°39′☿4°Venus in Capricorn · 21°48′♀21°Mars in Pisces · 19°00′♂19°Jupiter in Pisces · 29°50′♃29°Saturn in Aries · 24°30′ · retrograde♄℞24°Uranus in Taurus · 18°37′ · retrograde♅℞18°Neptune in Virgo · 25°29′♆25°Pluto in Leo · 2°30′ · retrograde♇℞2°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSunsquareNeptune0.0° to 0.9° orb

    Harold’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMoonoppositionNeptune0.0° to 7.4° orb

    Harold’s feelings pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableMarssextileUranus0.0° to 0.7° orb

    Harold’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSuntrineSaturn0.9° to 1.9° orb

  • stableMercurytrinePluto1.6° to 2.7° orb

  • stableVenussquareSaturn2.1° to 3.3° orb

  • stableVenussextileMars2.5° to 3.1° orb

  • stableVenustrineUranus2.5° to 3.8° orb

  • stableJupitertrinePluto2.6° to 2.7° orb

  • stableVenustrineNeptune3.1° to 4.3° orb

  • stableSunsquareJupiter3.5° to 4.4° orb

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter4.3° to 5.3° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable6 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.

Harold’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 18°27′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresVirgo 16°24′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosLibra 25°42′ (moves 0.84° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 0°19′ (moves 0.37° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 10°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron sextile Uranus 0.2°
  • Eros sextile Sun 0.2°
  • Hygiea sextile Jupiter 0.5°
  • Chiron trine Mars 0.6°
  • Eros opposition Saturn 1.2°
  • Ceres trine Uranus 2.2°
  • Hygiea opposition Pluto 2.2°
  • Ceres opposition Mars 2.6°

Harold’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♃ Jupiter9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♆ Neptune8 pts

    disposes Mars, Jupiter; 6 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus5 pts

    disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Harold’s chart

  • kite, the shape it makesKite · Venus, Uranus, Neptune, MarsA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Mercury, Jupiter, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Sun · Jupiter, Neptune, SunAn 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.

  • Sun biquintile Pluto 0.6°
  • Saturn quincunx Neptune 1.0°
  • Sun biquintile Uranus 1.3°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.5°

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Harold’s cards

Computed from December 18, 1939. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Chariot

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Seeker

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

己

yin Earth

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Harold’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q295691 (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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Quick answers about Harold E. Varmus’s chart

How old is Harold E. Varmus?
Harold E. Varmus is 86 years old, born December 18, 1939 in Oceanside, United States.
What zodiac sign is Harold E. Varmus?
Harold E. Varmus is a Sagittarius: born December 18, 1939, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
What is Harold E. Varmus's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 18, 1939 birth.
What is Harold E. Varmus's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What is Harold E. Varmus's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Harold E. Varmus's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Harold E. Varmus's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects). Neptune is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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