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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Rabbit, with 
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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.
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~554,280
Americans share it since 1880
1924
its peak year
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Harold’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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 be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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The quick version
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunTruth 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. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
Earth Rabbit
Earth RabbitKeeps 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. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Solitary, curious, deep.
Harold E. Varmus's birth date, December 18, 1939, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in Harold’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Harold E. Varmus' date-only chart is Sun square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- No planet falls in Air signs in this chart.
- Harold E. Varmus combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Seeker.
Harold’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Harold E. Varmus, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 18° to 29° Pisces 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.
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
Harold’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurytrinePluto1.6° to 2.7° orb
Harold’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussquareSaturn2.1° to 3.3° orb
Harold’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussextileMars2.5° to 3.1° orb
Harold’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableVenustrineUranus2.5° to 3.8° orb
Harold’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableJupitertrinePluto2.6° to 2.7° orb
Harold’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableVenustrineNeptune3.1° to 4.3° orb
Harold’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsquareJupiter3.5° to 4.4° orb
Harold’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableMercurytrineJupiter4.3° to 5.3° orb
Harold’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 18°27′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Harold is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ CeresVirgo 16°24′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Harold caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ ErosLibra 25°42′ (moves 0.84° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Harold is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 0°19′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Harold is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 10°24′ (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. Harold 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 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°
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°).
Harold’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. ♃ Jupiter9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune8 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter; 6 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Harold is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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 Harold’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.
Kite · 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 · 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 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 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.
- Sun biquintile Pluto 0.6°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 1.0°
- Sun biquintile Uranus 1.3°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Harold E. Varmus, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Harold’s cards
Every card is computed from December 18, 1939, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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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
No birth time is on public record for Harold E. Varmus, 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
Harold’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q295691, 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, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rabbit.
- 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 time was Harold E. Varmus 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 is Harold E. Varmus's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the December 18, 1939 birth date.
- What is Harold E. Varmus's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 18, 1939 birth date.
- 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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